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The Delimitation Commission proposing six additional assembly seats for Jammu division and one in Kashmir has led to the Valley based parties reacting sharply.
In the erstwhile Assembly, Jammu division had 37 and Kashmir division 46 seats while the Ladakh region had 4.
As proposed by the Delimitation Commission headed by Justice (Retired) Ranjana Prakash Desai, the new J&K Assembly would have 90 seats, 47 for Kashmir division and 43 for Jammu division.
The commission has proposed to keep 24 Assembly seats reserved for Pakistan occupied parts of J&K. It has also proposed to have seven seats reserved for Schedule Castes and nine for the Scheduled Tribes.
It means that Jammu still has four seats less than Kashmir. But the proposal forwarded by the Delimitation Panel has made one thing clear that Jammu needs more representation.
With 43 seats out of 90, there is every possibility that someone from Jammu region will get a chance to become a J&K chief minister. During the past 70-years the Chief Minister’s office has been held by a leader from Kashmir.
The Kashmir centric leaders who are raising hue and cry about Jammu getting six additional assembly seats seem to have got unnerved as they have realized that making a government that would have its focus only on Kashmir won’t be possible in the coming years. Another thing they seem to be worried about is that a Dogra from Jammu can now easily stake the claim to become the Chief Minister and it could lead to Jammu based parties getting united.
As is visible on the ground, so far, no political party, including the BJP is likely to achieve the magic number of 46 in a house of 90 so that it can lodge a claim to form the next government in J&K on its own.
The fortunes of the NC and the PDP are heavily loaded against each other; the gain of one of them means the direct loss of the other.
The new political equations that are emerging indicate that political parties in Jammu and Kashmir regions will be heavily dependent upon each other to form a government.
The Delimitation Commission has tried to strike a balance and the move seems to be aimed at ending the discrimination that Jammu region has faced during all these years. |
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