Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 11: MJR-47, an organisation of DPs of 1947 from PoJK, in its meeting held at Miran Sahib today discussed its future plan in view of the formation of the Union Government after the recent elections.
MJR-47 welcomed the initiative taken by the Govt to mull Delimitation Commission over-ruling the freeze upto 2026 and undo the undemocratic decision taken by the autocratic rulers of the State in 2002. This announcement of the Home Minister to reconstitute Assembly Constituencies in J&K State on a justifiable basis of population and areas shows the resolve of the BJP Govt. to undo the mistakes and set right the discrimination and injustice done to a section of population in J&K and enforce freedom and real democracy in the State.
A spokesman of the MJR-47 said that organization had been demanding 8-10 Assembly seats out of the 24 seats kept frozen for PoJK occupied areas for the last 70 years in proportion to the populace now living in this part of the State in India after 1947 tribal raid by Pak on the erstwhile State of J&K on Oct 22, 1947. Though the erstwhile Govt had once taken out one seat from these 25 seats and created one extra constituency of Mendhar to suit their interests. But the genuine democratic demand of the DP’s of 1947 had all along been ignored. This will enable the 13 lakhs populace of DP’s to vote and elect their own DP representatives in the State Assembly who will fight for justice for DP’s with full vigor and confidence.
The process of de-freezing the seats out of the already existing 24 seats in the State Assembly is not as difficult as the process through Delimitation Commission. A simple order under the President rule can fulfill the process to give justice to the 13 lakhs DPs of 1947 from PoJK living in the state and elsewhere in the country.
MJR-47 would like to remind Home Minister that before last elections of 2014 it was resolved in the plenary session of BJP and also mulled by Narendra Modi that representation in the lower house of Parliament be also given to DP’s of 1947 from PoJK areas. They demanded two Parliamentary seats and 8 Assembly seats for the PoJK DPs.
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