Delhi civic polls: AAP delegation submits objection on delimitation draft

An AAP delegation met with the State Election Commission and submitted its objection on the first draft of the delimitation report.

An Aam Aadmi Party delegation met with the State Election Commission regarding the recently conducted MCD delimitation exercise. A draft delimitation report was released by the commission for feedback from all the stakeholders. An AAP Delegation consisting of party leaders Saurabh Bharadwaj, Durgesh Pathak, and Adil Khan reached the SEC premises to submit a representation in this regard.

AAP leader Durgesh Pathak alleged that the delimitation exercise seemed politically motivated.

“The variation of population sizes is a huge concern. How can there be wards with a population of 30,000 and 90,000 at the same time? Many localities have been turned into isolated-islands; they are physically within some ward but on paper they are inside a ward many kilometres away,” Durgesh Pathak said.

The Aam Aadmi Party appealed to the poll body to fix the discrepancies and hold civic polls at the earliest.

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“The committee has disturbed most of the wards in most assembly constituencies without changing the number of wards in Assembly Constituencies. Certain areas have been moved from one ward into another ward; the Delimitation Committee has to tell the rationale behind this move to the people of Delhi. Disadvantaged wards of the lower income groups pushed further into the dark by increasing their population sizes; elite and richer wards handpicked for smaller population sizes,” the AAP said in a letter to the committee.

The AAP submitted its feedback on the first draft of the delimitation report and highlighted two major concerns.