JK News Today
Jammu , July 06, 2021
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)of Mehbooba Mufti has told the visiting delimitation Commission that it is “ staying away” from its deliberation because the constitution of the commission was illegal and unconstitutional and it was coming with a pre-planned agenda suiting a particular political party ,
In a hard hitting letter to the Commission , the PDP’s General Secretary Ghulam Nabi Hanjura , the party has reflected on all what happened on August 5, 2019, when Article 370 and Article 35 A were done away with and the state of Jammu and Kashmir was bifurcated into the two union territories.
The letter released on Tuesday minutes before the arrival of the Delimitation Commission to which almost all national and regional parties are meeting cited the reasons for party’s decision to stay away from its deliberations one by one in the chronological order since August 5, 2019 and terming the Reorganisation of the 200-year-old state into two parts was unprecedented “ illegal and unconstitutional”
The letter said , “ We are of the considered opinion that the Delimitation Commission lacks constitutional and legal mandate in the first place and its very existence and objectives have left every ordinary resident of J&K with many questions. There are apprehensions that the delimitation exercise is part of the overall process of political disempowerment of the people of J&K that the Government of India has embarked on. At the very core of these apprehensions is the process through which the commission has been constituted and the fact that while the delimitation process across the country has been puton hold till 2026, J&K has been made an exception. There are apprehensions that the process is aimed at realizing political vision of a particular party in J&K wherein, like other things, the views and wishes of the people of J&K would be considered the least. It is a widespread belief that contours and outcome of the exercise have pre pre-planned and the exercise per se is mere formalty. The very intent is under question.”
