Srinagar | Feb, 6 : Jammu & Kashmir Peoples’ Conference on Sunday said that it believe delimitation draft report shows that the delimitation exercise in itself is an exercise in disruption.
In a statement issued here on Sunday almost 24 hours after the draft proposal of delimitation reports went viral on social media sites, news portals and news channels the J&K Peoples Conference said it always believed that the exercise of delimitation was an attempt to disempower and disenfranchise the people of Kashmir and will still believe that this process is designed to disempower the people of Kashmir.
Stating that “the delimitation commission’s refusal to change its earlier assertions are least surprising and as if to add salt to the wounds of the Kashmiris we have a new wondrous invention in the form of a parliamentary constituency invented by merging two regions – South Kashmir and Rajouri, the Peoples Conference in it’s statement further said that “the inhabitants of these two regions have totally different aspirations, the problems and challenges they face are completely different, the topography is different and yet for reasons best known to the commission they actually merged two distinct regions to carve out a single Parliamentary Constituency”.
The party in it’s statement further said “the people of Kashmir are going through some of the most troubled times”, adding that “there seems to be no let up in belittling them and “showing them their place”. The party in it’s statement further more said “Irrationalism is an ugly and a sad constant in the delimitation exercise. And it is not the macro division only. Even when it comes to internal redrawing of the respective constituencies, there is a lot of invention and creation”, adding that ” this whole exercise seems to be an exercise in disruption and are trying to act as the new disruptors – disrupt the political system, disrupt the political equilibrium and disrupt and confuse the existing political class”.
