The People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration, an amalgam of regional parties led by Farooq Abdullah of the National Conference, said that the exercise was bound to disempower the people and alter the electoral demography of J&K in the long run.
“This exercise was imposed under the J&K Reorganisation Act, which is under judicial scrutiny. We were never consulted, and any decision taken in our absence can never be the right decision and we will never accept it,” said PAGD spokesman Muhammad Yousuf Tarigami of the CPI-M. The exercise was ‘divisive’ and followed the agenda of a particular party with disregard for constitutional and legal norms. “They haven’t adhered to the 84th Amendment of the Constitution which froze delimitation across the country till 2026. They neither followed the criteria set in the Delimitation Commission Act of 2002,” he said.
Former CM Mehbooba Mufti rejected the commission’s report, alleging that the panel had become ‘extension of the BJP’. Talking to reporters in Anantnag on Thursday, Mufti said, “delimitation commission has become the extension of BJP and has overlooked the criteria of population and acted as per the wishes. We don’t trust it. Its recommendations are linked to abrogation of Article 370 and how to disempower people of J&K.”
Imran Dar of National Conference said: “Expected changes have not been made. The exercise has just benefitted BJP and its proxies, whose concerns have been addressed. It is a reshuffle to fulfil a political agenda. NC believes that whenever assembly polls happen, voters will give a decisive answer to BJP and their proxies.”
BJP’s J&K chief Ravidner Raina ermed it ‘amazing’. He congratulated the panel for completing the process on time. Former Union minister Saifuddin Soz of Congress expressed disappointment with the commission’s report and said the people in J&K may find it unacceptable. The Panthers Party expressed unhappiness over the report.
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