Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 2: Panun Kashmir (PK) held an emergency meeting to discuss the issue of the fresh delimitation of the constituencies in the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir.
The meeting was held under the chairmanship of the president, Panun Kashmir, Virender Raina and attended by general secretary, Upinder Koul, Ashok Chrungoo, Sameer Bhat, Sameer Mattoo, P.K.Bhan, P K Durani and Kewal Krishen Koul.
Virender Raina president PK said that the internally displaced people from Kashmir form a distinct group by virtue of their exodus from Kashmir as a result of persecution. All those who have been subjected to extirpation in Kashmir, because of the fascist terror have an exclusive identity and together form a constituency. This is the constituency of sufferers.
Raina, said that Delimitation Commission must reserve five constituencies for the Internally displaced people from Kashmir, in order to provide them political representation. Without such reservation the voice of all those internally displaced people would never be heard and they would remain in political wilderness for all times to come.
Raina appealed to the Delimitation Commission to reserve five Assembly seats for the Internally Displaced People of Kashmir as per their actual population. The ideal would have been to hold a fresh census in the State as the census of 2011 is reportedly erroneous.
In the past there are examples when the voice of Kashmiri Pandits was suppressed by deliberately truncating the Kashmiri Pandit constituencies as a result no Kashmiri Pandit could get elected to the State Assembly. This must not be allowed to happen now and there is an opportunity to redeem past mistakes.
He said that the need for further electoral reforms for the Internally displaced people need to be undertaken well in time. The practice of the infamous M forms also needs to be done away with.
Upinder Koul said that in view if the recent cases of forced conversion and Love Jehad in the Kashmir Valley, the Government needs to bring an anti-conversion bill to save the minorities of Kashmir.
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