Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 24: Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo, Kashmiri Pandit leader and Incharge, Deptt of Political Affairs and Feedback, J&K-BJP, today said that after the successful conduct of the DDC elections in Jammu and Kashmir in the post August 5 & 6, 2019 scenario, it is time now for the Delimitation Commission to come in to settle the unsettled issues in the Union Territory.
Chrungoo further said that the census of 2011 can’t be the only criteria that for the delimitation. Many other factors also require to be taken into consideration by the commission, he added.
“The Kashmiri Pandit community, which is living as refugees for the last more than three decades, has very meager chances to get their representatives elected to the politically important forums. Since they are not politically represented unlike all other communities in the UT, they are the perpetual victims of having been refused their share in the Government, administration and the other arms and instrumentalities of the State”, the BJP leader added.
“There is no member of the Pandit community in the all important Public Service Commission of the State/UT for the last one decade, there has not been even a single minister in the Government for the last more than a decade, there is no possibility of being represented, for the indigenous people of the State, in the Parliament of the nation neither is there any mechanism to nominate them to the important political positions either at the Centre or in the UT,” he further said and stressed that it is time that five Assembly seats are reserved for this victim nationalist community.
“I make a fervent appeal to the Delimitation Commission to exercise their powers to send such a recommendation to the President and the Government of India in order to settle the unsettled issue of politically important concern of the Pandit community. It will also help paving way for the resettlement of the community in the Valley, eventually, as per their geo-political aspirations in the days to come in future”, he said.
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