Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 13: Jammu and Kashmir BJP is of the view that the delimitation has rectified historical blunders and set right the true democracy by adding six seats to Jammu and one to Kashmir.
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J&K BJP chief spokesperson, Sunil Sethi, while addressing a press conference, along with spokesperson Balbir Ram Rattan and media secretary, Dr. Pardeep Mahotra at party headquarters here, today said that the Delimitation Commission’s report will empower Jammu to compete and march ahead with Kashmir, leading to peace progress and prosperity in the UT as the criterion applied by the Commission has distributed seats proportionate to population subject to application of norms of law like geographic terrain, connectivity, communication etc.
Sethi expressed gratitude to the Delimitation Commission for huge and pro- people exercise and decisions taken, which has come out in the shape of draft report. He said that new Parliamentary Constituency named Rajouri-Poonch-Anantnag will stabilize nationalistic voices in the constituency. Radicals, separatists of South Kashmir will be democratically countered and balanced by nationalistic forces from Rajouri, Poonch. This constituency is justified as all Parliamentary constituencies are now spread equally to 18 Assembly constituencies or so. It will also lead to more compatibility and understanding between two provinces and new political vistas to people of Poonch Rajouri leading to their empowerment, he added.
Sethi said the new constituencies carved out will bring development to the door steps of the ignored and politically marginalized sections. Areas like Paddar will see real development for first time with their own constituency, he added.
The BJP chief spokesperson said that while carving out constituencies and reserving them, uniform principles have been followed but even then there are some areas where aspirations of people are not met.
Sethi shared that the party has received number of representations of resentment in some areas and our two Associate Members in the Delimitation Commission will bring the same into the notice of the Commission to brief about problems and difficulties in some areas, which needs to be relooked and reworked.
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