Delimitation Commission Formed To Redraw Constituencies To Visit States After Preparing Framework

The Delimitation Commission for 4 north-eastern states and J&Ok was arrange in March (File)

New Delhi:

The Delimitation Commission, set as much as redraw the constituencies of Assam, Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, will go to the north-eastern states and the Union Territory after making ready a “broad framework” of the delimitation train, officers stated.

The fee will even search views and inputs of its “associate members” — a gaggle of Lok Sabha members and MLAs — after drawing up the broad framework.

“First the broad framework has to be developed on carving out constituencies based on the 2011 Census. Only then would the Delimitation Commission visit the states to meet locals. Once the framework is drawn, it would also interact with associate members to seek their views and inputs,” stated an official conscious of the developments.

The delimitation panel will redraw the Lok Sabha and meeting constituencies of the 4 north-eastern states and, work on rising the meeting seats of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir as per the provisions of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act.

The Delimitation Commission for the 4 north-eastern states and Jammu and Kashmir was arrange in March.

It is headed by former Supreme Court choose Justice Ranjana Desai (retd). Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra is the consultant of the Election Commission within the delimitation panel whereas state election commissioners of Jammu and Kashmir and the 4 states are its ex-officio members.

In May, the Lok Sabha Speaker had nominated 15 MPs from Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh as “associate members” of the Delimitation Commission to help the panel in redrawing parliamentary and meeting constituencies of the north-eastern states and the Union Territory.

The 15 MPs embody two Union ministers — Kiren Rijiju and Jitendra Singh.