Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 11: Rebutting the claim of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) that everything is fine with the delimitation report, JKPCC chief spokesperson Ravinder Sharma said the CEC’s assertions lack any convincing arguments, in view of unreasonable dissections of several constituencies, large variations in Inter – se population and totally against geographical situations, etc.
Reacting to the interview of CEC justifying the final report, Ravinder Sharma said that it amounts to adding salt to the injury. He said the vast majority of people irrespective of political affiliations, caste, creed, colour, religion and region were raising voice against several anomalies, hoping some modifications to rectify the blunders but the one sided draft report was finalized.
“The CEC should know how the existing segments were unreasonably split and readjusted in such a manner that no settled norms appear to have been kept in mind, be it contiguity, connectivity, population, geographical situation and public convenience, in most cases. There are class examples of large variations and deviations from norms within district, district to districts, regions and there is no uniformity in population, area, topography,” Sharma rued.
He said Congress has always impressed upon adhering to the delimitation norms, in letter and spirit and justice to all areas, however same was not done in this case.
“Rajouri-Poonch is neither having proper connectivity or topographical/geographical contiguity rather Kishtwar and Banihal had better parameters of contiguity, geographical, topographical situation and connected with highway or other routes but why Rajouri-Poonch was clubbed with Anantnag,” he questioned.
Sharma said delimitation report was earlier put before state legislature in 1987 and following objections by representatives, it was referred to review commission. This is the right approach in a democracy, he said and added that the Congress Party shall continue to raise its voice individually and collectively, against the injustice with most areas, putting public to inconvenience and disadvantage.
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