With the Union Home Ministry (MHA) mulling over fresh delimitation of Assembly constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir, NC leader Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said that his party would oppose “tooth and nail” any such attempt without a mandate from the people of the state. “When delimitation takes place in the rest of the country, the BJP is welcome to apply it to J&K until then we in the @JKNC_ will oppose, tooth & nail, any attempt to make changes without a mandate from the people of the state,” tweeted Abdullah. In his earlier tweet, he said: “The freeze on delimitation was applied to J&K and was done to bring the state in line with the rest of the country. The same was challenged and upheld in both the High Court of J&K and the Supreme Court”. “It’s rather surprising that the BJP, which talks about bringing J&K at par with other states by removing 370 and 35-A now wants to treat J&K differently from other states in this one respect,” he said in his subsequent tweet. It is reliably learnt that the MHA is pondering over the appointment of a delimitation commission to study the Assembly constituencies and come up with its recommendations. Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday held a high-level meeting on the current security scenario in the state and the preparedness for the Amarnath Yatra. The meeting takes place just three days after he took charge as the Union Home Minister.
