Ensure free, fair & transparent Delimitation exercise for early Assembly elections: Bhalla

STATE TIMES NEWS

JAMMU: Former Minister and senior Congress leader Raman Bhalla has batted for holding the delimitation exercise in Jammu and Kashmir in a free, fair and transparent manner and said that the process should be completed in shortest possible time to pave way for early assembly elections.
He said that the Party favours early delimitation in a time-bound manner and completion of the process for the early conduct of assembly elections in the state.
He said the delimitation exercise should be conducted in accordance with the Constitution and norms & procedure prescribed under the law taking into account various parameters of population, area, terrain, topography and other such considerations in order to ensure complete justice with each and every area.
“Since the BJP government at the Centre has absolute majority and J&K UT is under Governor’s rule, let them expedite the process and complete it for early holding the assembly polls”, he said.
Addressing a gathering at Belicharana today, Bhalla doubted the intention of the BJP for vested political interests and said that entire exercise should be held in a transparent manner as per settled norms and law on the subject and taking the people of different parts and constituencies in to confidence.
The ruling party leaders are looking for selective benefits which will be counterproductive and hurt the interests of people in the long run, he said.
He demanded that the delimitation Commission should ensure complete justice with each region, sub region and different areas and sections of the society as per norms and repeated commitments of the government and the ruling party.
Those present on the occasion include Block President Amrit Bali, Vijay Sharma Babbi, Manzoor Ahmed, Dara Singh, Shoqat Ali, Zaroor Din, Ch. Jamil, Dalip Singh, Tirath Singh, Gulam Abaz, Parvesh Sharma, Abdul Quoom, Inder Singh, Farooq Ahmed and Abdul Latif.