Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 20: The MJR-47 held a meeting here and has demanded full political empowerment of POJK DPs.
In the meeting, Convener MJR-47 JS Sudan said that the issue for allocation of assembly seats kept reserved for POJK residents to DPs of 1947 from POJK for their political empowerment. The issue was taken up with the Delimitation Commission in July 2021 at Jammu and again in April 2022 when the Commission held an open discussion at Jammu.
“We presented the case and convinced the Commission to open the law book and look through the articles, to which the Chairperson assured to have a fresh look into the matter”, he said, adding that Commission submitted its report recommending some assembly seats for POJK DPs without specifying the number as has been clearly spelled out for valley migrants.
“Now the case is with the GOI and the DPs request that unlike the previous Governments, the present Government should do justice with the DPs by allocating at least 8 to 10 seats in proportion to the population displaced from POJK areas after October 1947 and since then living in India”, the member said.
MJR-47 demands proportionate increase in assembly seats for DPs to atleast 10 to commensurate with the increased number of DP voters and give them their political rights as ensured by the constitution.
The members who attended and spoke in the meeting of MJR-47 were JS Sudan, Suchwant Singh, Padam Den Raina, KL Sudan, Vinod Sharma, Jaswant Singh, Harjit Singh, Madan Sharma, Vinod Kumar and others.
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