Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 17: President All India Jat Maha Sabha (AIJMS) Choudhary Manmohan Singh has submitted a plethora of objections to Delimitation Commission citing startling injustice in the draft report of the Commission which was made public recently inviting objections/suggestions from general public.
In a letter to Delimitation Commission, Choudhary Manmohan Singh highlighted that Jats are having over 4.5 lakh population in J&K and until recently their community has good representation in the Parliament and State Assembly with some of them having the responsibility to serve society as ministers. He rued that the purposed changes given by the Commission has closed all the doors for the community as demarcations of constituency and reservation of seats is totally unjustified.
Singh said now as per the draft of delimitation panel, the entire community has been robbed off any chance of representing this huge population from any area as reconstitution, realignment and amalgamation of areas which were in the existing constituencies has been made without giving a proper thought. Newly proposed constituencies neither offer Jats any fair representation in the legislative assembly”, the letter reads demanding immediate review over the issue.
He said that Ramgarh Constituency is a newly formed constituency and people of Rajpura and Samba (part) are suffering since last 25 -30 years due to reservation and now again they are going to be reserved for future which is unfair especially for Jats and therefore the constituency should be de-reserved for the justice sake.
Singh demanded that the Vijaypur constituency be reserved now since the same was an open constituency since decades. Gurha Slathia area which was a part of Vijaypur constituency geographically and logically has now been added in Samba constituency illogically to benefit some class or individuals which is a questionable move”, he said.
He demanded to realign the Ramgarh and Suchetgarh constituencies to give justice to Jats besides making them open seats to ensure that Jat community members also get a fair chance to represent their people in Assembly or parliament.
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