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| Delimitation Commission counters Mehbooba’s misleading campaign | | Panel winds up first-ever visit to J&K; likely to visit again | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 9: It was mere coincident that when Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti landed at Jammu, chairperson of J&K Delimitation Commission Justice (Retd) Ranjana Prakash Desai countered misleading campaign of the PDP.
Replying to question while winding up a four-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir to get feedback from the ground level, Justice Desai assured that the whole exercise is going to be transparent manner as per law.
When her attention was drawn towards the statement of PDP, Justice Desai said, “I don’t think anybody should have any fear. We are very confidence that we will finish the task as per law in most transparent manner, otherwise we would not be coming and spending three-four days here and talking to so many people”.
The PDP, while announcing its decision not to meet the Delimitation Commission on July 6 had described the whole exercise as “pre-planned” in favor of a particular party and “aimed to further hurt the interests of people of J&K”.
After meeting a number of groups during a four-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir, the panel on Friday said that this exercise of interaction will continue to meet many more people before putting the draft proposal in the public domain.
“This is our first visit to the Union Territory, and I assure you that it is not our last visit, we will have to come again to interact with many more people. It is a complex exercise and the commission will continue with this engagement. The Commission will take all necessary steps to continue this exercise”, Justice Desai said.
Chief Election Commissioner of India Sushil Chandra, who was also present in the press conference said that due representation will be given to the people belonging to Scheduled Tribe and Scheduled Castes groups in the new assembly of J&K., He said that first-time seats will have to be provided to STs in the Assembly.
The panel said that delimitation will be conducted on the base of the 2011 census and the final draft will be prepared after taking all demands and recommendations into account.
“The delimitation commission was constituted in the year 2020 to carry on the exercise on the basis of 2011 census as per section 62 of Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019”, he said and added that associate members of the panel would also be taken on the board before making the draft.
“The draft will be put in the public domain to seek objections and comments from the people. Only after seeing all comments, the final draft will be prepared. The opportunity will be provided to the public at large to raise objections and only then things will be finalized”, he said.
Chief Election Commissioner of India made it clear that 24 seats of the legislative assembly of UT of Jammu and Kashmir shall remain vacant and the said area shall be excluded in delimiting the territorial constituency as provided under part V of Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019. |
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