Delimitation panel aimed at disempowering majority community: Mehbooba
The Hindu
The three-member commission submitted its fresh interim report to the associate members a few days ago
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday described the draft report of the Jammu and Kashmir delimitation commission as an “attempt to disempower the majority community here”.
“We always had apprehensions that the delimitation panel was set up to further the agenda of the BJP. It is now evident from the fact that no constitutional reforms have been followed by the commission,” Ms. Mufti said.
She said the panel had made an attempt “to strengthen the constituencies of the BJP and disempower the majority community of Rajouri, the Kashmir Valley and the Chenab Valley”. “It is another onslaught on democracy in Jammu and Kashmir,” she said.