Early Times Report
Jammu, June 27: Pressing hard upon the long pending demand of political empowerment to PoJK Displaced Persons in Jammu and Kashmir, Y. R. Gupta, Chairman, PoJK Refugee Sangarsh Morcha appealed Governor, Satya Pal Malik for the political empowerment of the PoJK Displaced Persons and fresh delimitation in Jammu and Kashmir. He argued that PoJK Displaced Persons are the first victims of Pakistani aggression, they feel aggrieved and agitated since their displacement from PoJK to till date because of political neglect since the formation of first government in J&K by Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah. He charged that Kashmir centric leaders have deliberately discriminated Jammu and Ladakh. This was facilitated by the arbitrary delimitation of seats where in Kashmir was allotted 46 out of 87 seats i.e., more than half of total seats.The delimitation did not follow the universally accepted principles of population, area, geography and political aspirations of the people. To substantiate the average voter per constituency in Jammu district is 91,905 while it is 78,225in Srinagar district. Likewise average Area covered by a constituency is 212.36 Km whereas in Srinagar it is 36.75 km. Gupta blamed that all these manipulations were done to ensure Kashmiri domination in J&K and denying political empowerment to Jammu and Ladakh. |
