Panel Formed To Redraw Constituencies To Visit States After Preparing Framework

New Delhi:

The Delimitation Fee, set as much as redraw the constituencies of Assam, Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, will go to the north-eastern states and the Union Territory after making ready a “broad framework” of the delimitation train, officers mentioned.

The fee may also search views and inputs of its “affiliate members” — a gaggle of Lok Sabha members and MLAs — after drawing up the broad framework.

“First the broad framework needs to be developed on carving out constituencies based mostly on the 2011 Census. Solely then would the Delimitation Fee go to the states to fulfill locals. As soon as the framework is drawn, it will additionally work together with affiliate members to hunt their views and inputs,” mentioned an official conscious of the developments.

The delimitation panel will redraw the Lok Sabha and meeting constituencies of the 4 north-eastern states and, work on rising the meeting seats of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir as per the provisions of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act.

The Delimitation Fee for the 4 north-eastern states and Jammu and Kashmir was arrange in March.

It’s headed by former Supreme Court docket decide Justice Ranjana Desai (retd). Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra is the consultant of the Election Fee within the delimitation panel whereas state election commissioners of Jammu and Kashmir and the 4 states are its ex-officio members.

In Could, the Lok Sabha Speaker had nominated 15 MPs from Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh as “affiliate members” of the Delimitation Fee to help the panel in redrawing parliamentary and meeting constituencies of the north-eastern states and the Union Territory.

The 15 MPs embrace two Union ministers — Kiren Rijiju and Jitendra Singh.