Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Feb 13: The Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti today said the Supreme Court verdict on delimitation in Jammu and Kashmir was immaterial when legal challenges to abrogation of Article 370 and J&K Reorganisation Act were pending before the apex court.
“We have rejected the delimitation commission from the outset. It (SC verdict) does not matter to us what the verdict is,” Mehbooba told reporters in Bijbehara today.
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The Supreme Court today dismissed a plea challenging the government’s decision to constitute the delimitation commission for redrawing the legislative assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies in J&K.
She questioned the apex court delivering the verdict on the delimitation petition when other pleas were still pending consideration.
“The challenge to the Reorganisation Act (under which the delimitation process was carried out) is pending, challenge to abrogation of Article 370 is pending before the SC. If all that is pending, how can they (the SC) give verdict on this petition?” she asked.
The former Chief Minister charged that delimitation was a tactical process of rigging before the elections. “That’s what they have done, converting the majority into a minority, in favour of the BJP. We have not even participated in the discussions of the delimitation commission,” she added.
Meanwhile, CPI(M) leader My Tarigami said that the Supreme Court’s dismissal of a petition challenging the delimitation process in Jammu and Kashmir has added to the long list of disappointments for the people of the Union Territory.
“There is nothing much to say about the Supreme Court decision on delimitation other than that it is another disappointment for the people of Jammu and Kashmir,” Tarigami, who is also a spokesperson for the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration said.
Carrying out the delimitation process under the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act is unacceptable, he said.
“It is just delimitation in the name of delimitation. They have virtually disrupted the unity of people of Jammu and Kashmir,” he said.
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