Delimitation Commission ignored all parameters: Mir

JKPCC President G A Mir alongwith Working President Raman Bhalla and a team of Senior leaders addressed an impressive gathering at Rajouri to take stock of the resentment against the proposed delimitation report apart from the ongoing membership drive of the party. Organised by the District Congress Committee led by President Shabir Ahmed Khan,the gathering was attended, Former MLA Ashok Sharma, JKPCC Chief Spokesperson Ravinder Sharma, Pranab Shagotra, Gajan Singh, Jatin Sharma besides all prominent local Congress leaders,councillors, Sarpnches,Panches and others.

Speaking on the occasion, Mir strongly criticised the leaked delimitation report which has disturbed and perturbed the people across regions and districts as well as assembly segments.The report is yet to be made public but series of protests are taking place at most of the areas. He called upon the party’s rank and file to work together to bring the Congress back to power in J&K. He said Congress during its rule implemented several projects in the interest of citizens. It was the Congress which ensured rapid development of every nook and corner of J&K. Be it water, drainage or roads, Congress was instrumental in ensuring basic amenities to citizens. He claimed that after BJP came to power, development has come to standstill and corruption has taken over. He also highlighted issue of lack of coordination between the officers of the line departments. He said govt failed to work with devotion,dedication and make outcome-based endeavours to yield fruitful results on the ground. Stressing on time-bound redressal of public concerns, Mir advised the Public representatives and officers to make coordinated efforts to ensure that the genuine issues of the public are redressed in a time-bound manner to mitigate their sufferings.

Mir claimed that Jammu and Kashmir Delimitation Commission’s draft report has evoked strong criticism and objections from political parties across the spectrum, including some of the Commission’s associate members. The majority of the political parties in Jammu and Kashmir have challenged the report for ignoring the all settled norms. “Population criteria is an essential component to be followed in a delimitation report. Mir said, noting that it has not followed a uniform yardstick in declaring new constituencies.“The new constituencies carved out to contradict the basic principle followed in the old ones. He said that a different yardstick has been followed in different areas and connectivity and contiguity has been totally ignored in the demarcation of constituencies. The Commission has proposed major changes in the Anantnag parliamentary seat by removing Pulwama and Shopian and adding Poonch and Rajouri. Surprisingly, the Shopian area, which connects Poonch and Rajouri via Mughal Road, has been included in Srinagar.

BJP came to power by promising to change the face of J&K. However, the party has failed to rise to the expectations of people of J&K. Be it the water project or Smart City, allegations of mismanagement have surfaced and the BJP has not been able to answer any to the satisfaction of the people,” he said. He said the BJP has taken several anti-people decisions which the Congress has strongly opposed.“The Congress has protested and held agitations against several projects which were not in the interest of people,” he said. “The BJP had promised to bring 24 X 7 water and power supply to people of J&K. It imposed and increased the water tax but has failed to ensure regularwater supply to rural areas.Prominent who attended and addressed include Shakeel Mir, masood Adv, Sajad Taraq, Pushvinder Gupta,prof MK Waqar, Rajesh Bittu, Zahid Malik,Bal Krishan Sharma, Rajesh Sharma Kushwant Iftkar Dar, Vijay Guru, Mustaq Ahmed, Suraj Parkash, Prithvi Raj, Adv. Zahid Malik, Babu Azam, Rattan Pal, Anil Chopra, Ashraf Katrya, Manju Shah, Zavaid Bagum, Fareed Akhter, Bashir Shall, Shamsher ZEO