Srinagar: In a disputable move, the delimitation commission established by the Narendra Modi government has proposed six extra get together seats for the Jammu area and just a single additional seat for Kashmir, setting off inescapable analysis from major political powers in the association domain.
Many view the suggestion as an “attack on political centrality and incomparability” of Kashmir in J&K’s legislative issues and “part of the series of measures began by BJP-drove government from August 5, 2019 to weaken Kashmiris”. The proposition has caused a stir as the populace living in the Kashmir Valley is 15 lakh more than Jammu, according to the last statistics work out.
Delimitation in J&K has been on the BJP’s plan beginning around 1995, when the last such exercise was done in the recent state.
In its gathering held in New Delhi on Monday (December 20), the commission, comprised by the Union government on March 6, 2020 to redraw the discretionary guide of J&K, told its partner individuals – three MPs from the National Conference and two from the BJP – that it has proposed six extra seats for Jammu and one for Kashmir.
“The commission has proposed six seats for Jammu and just one for Kashmir,” Justice (resigned) Hasnain Masoodi, the NC MP from Anantnag and partner individual from the board, told The Wire.
He said the commission has asked them (MPs) to react to the proposition by December 31. “This proposition is inadmissible to us as Kashmir merits a larger number of seats than Jammu according to populace,” he said.
The proposition would take the quantity of gathering seats in Jammu to 43 from existing the 37, and to 47 in Kashmir from 46.