Decision on J-K assembly election after discussion with political parties: CEC Sushil Chandra
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Decision on J-K assembly election after discussion with political parties: CEC Sushil Chandra

In an interview, Sushil Chandra, an ex-officio member of the Delimitation Commission for Jammu and Kashmir, said that the whole process of delimitation has been "transparent and participative".

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May 5, 2022, 09:45 pm IST
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New Delhi [India]: Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra has said that the voter lists will be updated in Jammu and Kashmir in accordance with the delimitation exercise and the decision on assembly elections will be taken after consultations with political parties.

In an interview, Sushil Chandra, an ex-officio member of the Delimitation Commission for Jammu and Kashmir, said that the whole process of delimitation has been “transparent and participative”.

The Delimitation Commission finalised the final delimitation order for Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, which paved the way for assembly polls in the union territory. The delimitation order will come into effect from the date of the central government’s notification.

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Chandra said that the Election Commission follows its own process for conducting polls.

“The voter list will be updated. The political parties will be consulted by the Election Commission and we will reach a decision on date of polls after discussions,” Chandra told ANI.

As per the final Delimitation Order, out of the 90 assembly constituencies, 43 will be part of the Jammu region and 47 of the Kashmir region.

Nine seats have been reserved for the Scheduled Tribes (STs) for the first time – six in the Jammu region and three in the Kashmir Valley. Seven seats have been reserved for Scheduled Castes. The constitution of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state did not provide for reservation of seats for the Scheduled Tribes in the legislative assembly.

All five parliamentary constituencies will have an equal number of assembly seats for the first time. Jammu and Kashmir has been treated as a single entity for the purpose of delimitation.

Chandra said one of the parliamentary constituencies combined the Anantnag region in the Valley and the Rajouri and Poonch of the Jammu region.

By this reorganisation, each parliamentary constituency will have an equal number of 18 assembly constituencies each.

“For five parliamentary constituencies, Delimitation Commission has ensured that all of them have an equal number of assembly constituencies. The division is such that each parliamentary constituency has 18 assembly constituencies,” he said.

Chandra said the Commission ensured that every assembly constituency shall be contained entirely in one district. The lowest administrative units – patwar circles (and wards in Jammu Municipal Corporation) were not broken and kept in a single constituency.

The Delimitation Commission, headed by former Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai, accepted most of the representations regarding the change of names.

Noting that expectations of voters were taken into account by the Commission, he said wide consultations were held and the draft was prepared after taking suggestions of associate members.

Chandra said the Commission visited Jammu and Kashmir twice. It interacted with approximately 242 delegations at four locations – Srinagar, Pahalgam, Kishtwar and Jammu during the first visit.

About 1600 people attended and expressed their views at the public sittings held at Jammu and Srinagar on April 4 and 5 this year during the second visit of the panel to the union territory.

The Commission has recommended at least two members (one of them must be female) from the community of Kashmiri migrants in the Legislative Assembly. It said such members may be given power at par with the power of nominated members of the legislative assembly of UT of Puducherry

It said that the central government may consider giving displaced persons from Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir some representation in Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly by way of nomination.

The Delimitation Commission for Jammu and Kashmir was constituted in March 2020. The bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir into union territories namely Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh took place in August 2019.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that elections would be held in Jammu and Kashmir after the delimitation process in the Union Territory was over. (ANI)

 

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