New Delhi: Alleging the Delimitation Commission’s draft is a reflection of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) furthering its agenda of separating the Hindus and Muslims, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday said it is an attempt to implement Godse’s ideology.
Stating the Delimitation Commission’s draft is unacceptable to the PDP, Mufti said this issue will be discussed in the coming meeting of the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration on February 23.
“The draft is a reflection of the BJP furthering its agenda, separating Hindus and Muslims, want to make it Godse's India,” she added, ANI reported.
The Delimitation Commission, in its draft report, has proposed that the assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir undergo an overhaul which has been handed over to five associate members for their suggestions, officials said on Saturday.
It was informed that the voluminous report has proposed redrawing of the Anantnag Parliamentary seat by including Rajouri and Poonch from the Jammu region, as well as carrying out massive changes in the Kashmir division, news agency PTI reported.
According to the officials, many of the assembly seats in the erstwhile Jammu-Kashmir state have vanished. These include Habba Kadal, a seat that was seen as a traditional bastion of migrant Kashmiri pandits.
Except for Khanyar, Sonwar, and Hazratbal assembly seats in the Srinagar district, all other seats have been redrawn and merged with new assembly seats being carved out such as Channapora and Srinagar South, the officials stated.
It was revealed that the voters from Habba Kadal will now be part of at least three assembly seats in the new proposed report.
Budgam district, which had five assembly seats, was redrawn and merged with Baramulla Parliamentary constituency. Some of the areas were split, carving out new assembly seats like Kunzer in North Kashmir.
As per the officials, the Sangrama seat in North Kashmir has been merged with other assembly seats.
Pulwama, Tral, and some areas of Shopian, which were part of the Anantnag Lok Sabha seat, will now be included in the Srinagar Parliamentary seat.
Earlier on Friday, the report was sent to the five associate members, including National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah and National Conference MPs Hasnain Masoodi and Akbar Lone besides BJP MPs Jitendra Singh and Jugal Kishore.
The associate members have been asked to submit their suggestions by February 14 after which the report would be released in the public domain, the officials said.
Earlier in March 2020, the Centre set up a Delimitation Commission, headed by retired Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai, to complete the delimitation exercise within a year.
The deadline was later extended till March this year.