After Prime Minister’s all-party meeting started re-engagement with condemned Kashmir parties, the 4-day visit by the 3-member Delimitation Commission tasked to add seven berths to a truncated assembly, witnessed political parties making their cases. With one prominent boycott, the multitude of suggestions before the Commission indicate as if Jammu and Kashmir is being pushed to the Praja Sabha days, reports
Yawar Hussain
Delimitation Commission speaking to the media after the conclusion of their 4-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir
With the Delimitation Commission visiting Jammu and Kashmir the second time, the political parties barring the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) met the commission with the demands ranging from de-freezing of seats reserved for Pakistan Administered Kashmir (PAK) to a reservation on basis of caste, faith and ethnicity.
The Gujjar and Bakerwals community, also known as the shepherd tribe of Jammu and Kashmir, live in the Muslim dominated cold and hilly area of Kashmir during the.