The Jammu and Kashmir delimitation commission has summoned a meeting with its associate members in New Delhi on December 20 to discuss progress on the delimitation of the Union Territory's 90 Assembly constituencies.
Many MPs have expressed concern about the claimed confusion generated by the Union Home Ministry's remark in Parliament about the deadline for the commission to submit its recommendations, thus the meeting has been arranged. The commission is chaired by Rtd Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai, and its tenure will expire in March 2022, following which Assembly elections will be placed.
Dr Jitendra Singh, Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, and Jammu MP Jugal Kishore Sharma, both from the BJP, are among the five associate members of the panel, as are NC MPs Farooq Abdullah, Mohammad Akbar Lone, and Hasnain Masoodi.
This is the panel's second meeting; the first was held on February 18 and just two BJP MPs attended, while the three NC members stayed away because the committee was established under the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act, which the party had challenged in the Supreme Court.
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