Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 9: All major opposition parties including Congress, National Conference, PDP, CPIM, CPI, IDP besides several social organisations like Statehood Mission, Deshbhagat Yaadgar Committee, and others have jointly rejected the delimitation report and decided to jointly launch the struggle to oppose it and awaken the general public, starting from a joint dharna this week în front of Election Commission.
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Announcement in this regard was made during a joint meeting of these parties, here today. The All Party United Morcha coordinated the meeting attended by different main opposition parties and socio- political organisations.
After detailed deliberations for three hours, these parties criticised the final report, attacking it on various grounds and referring to different areas, which have been disturbed and unreasonably adjusted/readjusted ignoring ground realities, connectivity and public convenience.
“The Commission has totally ignored the ground realities and neglected the convenience and aspirations of the people of different areas, widened gap of population between different constituencies ranging from 37000 population to 1.90 lakh population, ignored the geographical, topographical situations and broadly public convenience, who have been put to great inconvenience and their aspirations neglected în many ways în different areas,” they said.
Alleging that the exercise of public hearing by the Commission was an eye wash as the draft report was prepared at behest of ruling party, these parties claimed that the representations submitted by the general public and opposition parties were not taken into consideration.
“The Commission had done great injustice with the people by clubbing the border areas of Rajouri-Poonch and Anantnag- Kulgam Lok Sabha, lacking proper connectivity, which is totally unjustified and it also nullified the genuine demand of additional Lok Sabha seat în Jammu region, în view of its vast area,” they added.
The meeting also expressed great concern over the all out attempts to create communal polarisation and strongly condemned such actions of the communal forces encouraged by the BJP Government. The meeting reiterated its agenda of achieving the full statehood and early restoration of democracy under statehood.
Today’s meeting was presided over by Ravinder Sharma of Congress and attended by NC Provincial President Rattan Lal Gupta, Sheikh Abdul Rehman (Ex-MP), Ved Mahajan (Ex MLC), PDP spokesperson Virinder Singh Sonu, CPIM’s Kishore Kumar, Sunil Dimple, Narinder Singh Khalsa, Com Sukhdev Singh, Narinder Khajuria and I D Khajuria.
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