Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 10: Reminding the ruling BJP of its ‘Vision Document’ released during 2014 elections, the JKNPP Chairman and former Minister, Harsh Dev Singh today sought early delimitation of Assembly and Parliamentary constituencies in the State of J&K.
Lambasting the lackadaisical approach of the Government towards the major demand of Jammu region, Singh said that delimitation of constituencies which forms a part of the coalition’s Agenda of Alliance also deserved a priority consideration with early constitution of delimitation commission so as to make possible the accomplishment of the delimitation exercise during the currency of the present coalition which otherwise was a time consuming process.
He said that delimitation process involving delimitation of constituencies, re-adjustment of territorial boundaries, rotation of reserved seats, identification of seats for fresh reservation, reservation of seats as proposed for women etc. should be completed in a time bound manner so that next elections are held as per the census 2011.
Emphasising the urgency to initiate the delimitation process on war footing, Harsh Dev Singh said that geographical area, topography, number of voters, nature of terrain, inaccessibility and poor communication facilities are the factors which weigh heavily in favour of Jammu region and entitle it to a higher number of Assembly constituencies.
Singh further regretted that while delimitation process had been conducted all over the country by Justice Kuldeep Singh commission, it was J&K alone which had been singled out under the pretext of Article 370. He said that it was ironical that while the delimitation of 536 Parliamentary seats had been carried out all over the country, the six Parliamentary seats of J&K were left untouched and unaltered.
He said that the Centre and State Governments should act promptly as per their assurances and the needful was required to be done at the earliest. He warned of a full scale agitation in case the Coalition Government didn’t initiate the process for delimitation of Assembly constituencies.
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