Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 20: National Panthers Party (NPP) has threatened that there should be no Assembly or Parliamentary election in J&K if delimitation is not held in the State.
This demand has been addressed through memorandum to NN Vohra, Governor by Prof Bhim Singh, Patron and Founder, National Panthers Party (NPP).
Prof Singh urged Governor to exercise his constitutional power to hold delimitation of the Assembly constituencies before holding the election for the next Legislative Assembly in the State.
He pointed out that delimitation was held after the census of 2001 throughout the country by the Kuldip Singh Delimitation Commission except J&K. He said that the Panthers Party had moved the High Court and the Supreme Court in this regard but could not succeed, mainly for the reason that the effects of the census 2001 were getting diluted because of the fresh census of 2011.
Prof Bhim Singh said that the Scheduled Tribes have legal entitlement of political reservation in the Assembly and the Government did not go for delimitation because they do not want to grant reservation to the Gujjars, Bakerwals and the Gaddies.
He urged the Governor for his urgent intervention in this regard and said that the party will take up the battle to ensure that people should not suffer from discrimination at the hands of NC and the Congress.
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