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Barring Mehbooba Mufti’s PDP, Major J&K Parties To Meet Delimitation Commission


The PDP has alleged the physique lacks constitutional and authorized mandate (File)

Srinagar:

Barring the PDP and the ANC, all the most important political events in Kashmir will meet the visiting Delimitation Fee which is able to arrive right here on Tuesday to assemble first-hand inputs to redraw constituencies within the union territory.

The Folks’s Democratic Get together (PDP) led by former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti and Awami Nationwide Convention (ANC)are constituents of the Folks’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD).

The PDP has determined to steer clear of the delimitation course of, alleging the physique lacks constitutional and authorized mandate and is a part of the general “technique of political disempowerment” of the individuals of Jammu and Kashmir.

In a two-page letter written to Ranjana Desai, a retired Supreme Court docket choose heading the panel, normal secretary of the celebration Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura stated the PDP has determined to not be a part of “some train, the end result which is broadly believed to be pre-planned and which can additional damage the pursuits of our individuals”.

In its letter to the Fee, the ANC knowledgeable that it’ll not participate within the proceedings because the organising of the fee has been challenged earlier than the Supreme Court docket.

“As such it won’t be correct to intervene with the working of the Hon’ble Supreme Court docket,” ANC normal secretary Mir Mohammad Shafi stated within the communication.

Nevertheless, different events have determined to fulfill the visiting delegation and have nominated their representatives.

The Nationwide Convention (NC) has named a five-member crew to fulfill the fee and put ahead its recommendations, a celebration chief stated.

The celebration has nominated Abdul Raheem Quite, Mohammad Shafi Uri, Mian Altaf Ahmad, Nasir Aslam Wani and Sakina Ittoo to fulfill the fee, he stated.

The Congress’s delegation contains its Jammu and Kashmir unit president G A Mir, Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed, Taj Mohiuddin, Bashir Ahmad Magrey, Surinder Singh Channi and Vinod Koul, a celebration chief stated.

From the Jammu and Kashmir Folks’s Convention led by Sajad Lone, 4 members will meet the delegation. They’re Bashir Ahmad Dar, Mansoor Hussain Soharwardy, Mohammad Khurshid Alam and Mohammad Ashraf Mir.

The Jammu and Kashmir Apni celebration led by former finance minister Altaf Bukhari has nominated Ghulam Hassan Mir, Zaffar lqbal Manhas, Usman Majid, Rafi Ahmad Mir and Mohammad Ashraf Mir.

The Nationwide Panthers Get together has chosen Syed Masood Andrabi, Manzoor Ahmad Naik, Hakikat Singh Jamwal, Farooq Ahmad Dar and Hakeem Arif Ali as their representatives to fulfill the fee.

The Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) has nominated Sofi Yusuf, G M Mir, Surinder Ambardar and Altaf Thakur as its representatives.