The Jammu and Kashmir delimitation fee on Thursday signed the ultimate order to redraw Jammu and Kashmir seats after session with varied stakeholders, representatives of political events, residents, and civil society teams. A complete of 9 seats have been reserved for Scheduled Tribes, out of which 6 are within the Jammu area and three in Kashmir. There are 5 parliamentary constituencies within the area.
The fee has proposed growing the variety of seats within the UT from 83 to 90.
The panel has additionally proposed six extra seats for Jammu and one for Kashmir. As of now, the Kashmir division has 46 seats and the Jammu division 37. A duplicate of this order and the report, detailing the variety of constituencies and their dimension, shall be submitted to the federal government after which the order shall be issued via a gazette notification.
The Delimitation Commission has seen the Jammu & Kashmir area as one single Union Territory. Therefore, one of many Parliamentary Constituency has been carved out combining the Anantnag area within the Valley and the Rajouri and Poonch of the Jammu area.
The panel, led by former Supreme Court decide Ranjana Prakash Desai, includes chief election commissioner Sushil Chandra and deputy election commissioner Chander Bhushan Kumar, state election commissioner (SEC) KK Sharma and chief electoral officer Hridesh Kumar as its ex-officio members. Initially, it was granted a yr’s extension. Another extension of two months was given in February to finish the essential train of redrawing the boundaries of meeting and parliamentary constituencies in order that the elections within the Union Territory can happen.
In August 2019, the central authorities had handed the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill which abrogated Article 370 and stripped Jammu and Kashmir off its statehood.
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