Associate members to file suggestions today; will seek review of few proposals
Jammu: J&K Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday stated that the party’s Associate members would “put forth concerns of people in some pockets” and “few suggestions” before the Delimitation Commission on February 14 with the request to “relook and rework.”
The Commission, while sharing its draft proposals with its Associate members on February 4, had asked them to submit their suggestions or objections on February 14. Following it, the draft will be put in public domain for eliciting opinions or concerns.
J&K BJP president Ravinder Raina and the chief spokesperson Sunil Sethi said that the Delimitation Commission had worked in a transparent manner after criss-crossing different areas of the Union Territory and meeting cross sections of the people and the party had no role in its functioning.
Taking a dig at the political detractors, Raina said that majority of the people across J&K were happy with the draft proposals which provided justice to the deprived sections but some vested interests were raising a hue and cry. He pointed out that the objections of opponents like Congress, National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party were inspired by their “politics of opportunism and exploitation.”Sethi, while addressing a press conference at the party office, stated that his party believed that the delimitation rectified historical blunders and set right the true democracy by adding six seats to Jammu and one to Kashmir.
Sethi said that the Delimitation Commission’s report would empower Jammu to compete and march ahead with Kashmir as the criterion applied by it (Commission) distributed seats proportionate to population subject to application of norms of law like geographic terrain connectivity communication etc.
