Srinagar: 7 more assembly seats to be added in Jammu and Kashmir. This will be followed by a total of 90 assembly seats. The Delimitation Commission, which is on a visit to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, has informed this while holding a press conference. Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra, member of the Commission, said that the delimitation process will be completed by March next year.
He said that this will be done as the basis of 2011 Census. However, the news may be worrying for Pakistan as 24 seats in Jammu and Kashmir fall in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). The BJP has been consistently demanding that these seats also be made a part of the assembly elections. Earlier, a delegation of The Jammu and Kashmir Unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) met the Delimitation Commission on Thursday and demanded unfreeze of 24 assembly seats coming to PoK to provide reservation to displaced people from PoK, Kashmir Pandits, SC and ST.
The delegation led by Jammu and Kashmir BJP unit president Ravinder Raina also demanded adequate representation for Jammu in the Assembly. Tell me, the Members of the Delimitation Commission have been in Jammu and Kashmir for four days and are discussing with the people there. During the press conference, it was informed that the members of the Commission have spoken to the people from 10.10 p.m. and tried to find out what is going on in their minds. The Commission is headed by Justice (Retd) Ranjana Prakash Desai.
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