An additional 7.2 lakh voters have been added to the electoral rolls of Jammu and Kashmir, prompting the National Conference to urge the Election Commission of India to announce Assembly Elections in the UT.
With the addition of the highest-ever 바카라 웹사이트7.72 lakh voters in final electoral roll of Jammu and Kashmir, the special summary revision exercise seems to be a precursor for long-awaited elections in the country라이브 바카라 newest Union Territory, Jammu and Kashmir.바카라 웹사이트
Following the development, the region라이브 바카라 grand old party, the바카라 웹사이트National Conference has demanded that바카라 웹사이트the Election Commission of India announce the long-awaited Assembly Elections in the UT.바카라 웹사이트
The party has바카라 웹사이트said that it is studying details of this new voter addition “constituency-wise”. It also stated with the announcement from ECI on voter addition, it hopes now the “confusion and resulting apprehensions about addition of 25 lakh new voters”, which emanated from then J&K라이브 바카라 Chief Electoral Officer Hridesh Kumar라이브 바카라 presser in August, will end.
In August 17 this year, J&K라이브 바카라 Chief Election Officer Hridesh Kumar바카라 웹사이트announced that anyone “who is living ordinarily in J&K” can avail the opportunity to get enlisted as a voter in the UT in accordance with the provisions of the Representation of the People Act.바카라 웹사이트
Following abrogation of Article 370 which limited voting franchise to certain sections of the Kashmiri population,바카라 웹사이트Kumar had said that those who were not enlisted as voters in the erstwhile J&K state are now eligible to vote.
He had said that ECI is expecting an addition of 20-25 lakh new voters in the final electoral roll of J&K.
Kumar had also said security forces posted in J&K could also register as voters and could possibly participate in the first-ever Assembly polls in the newly formed UT.바카라 웹사이트
The announcement led to political바카라 웹사이트backlash바카라 웹사이트in J&K, with political parties except for BJP including the National Conference, Peoples Democratic Party, CPI(M) and Peoples Conference, expressing concerns that the move will open the floodgates of migrant influx into the demographically sensitive state바카라 웹사이트and “turn locals into an electoral minority”.바카라 웹사이트
J&K라이브 바카라 former CM Mehbooba Mufti바카라 웹사이트expressed concern about the proposed addition, insinuating바카라 웹사이트that the "plan" to make바카라 웹사이트25 lakh non-locals바카라 웹사이트eligible to vote in the UT라이브 바카라 Assembly elections was an attack on democracy.
“This is the last nail in the coffin of electoral democracy,” Mufti had said in reaction to Kumar라이브 바카라 announcement
Peoples Conference chairman Sajad Lone after the announcement had compared the move with the 1987 rigged elections in J&K, which resulted in militancy in Kashmir in the 1990s.바카라 웹사이트
“Please remember 1987. We are yet to come out of that. Don’t re-play 1987. It will be disastrous,” Lone had said.
"The Government is going ahead with its plan to add 25 lakh non-local voters in J&K and we continue to oppose this move. BJP is scared of the elections & knows it will lose badly. People of J&K must defeat these conspiracies at the ballot box," former CM Farooq Abdullah had said.
The Delimitation Commission has re-drawn many constituencies in J&K. The electoral rolls were revised following the delimitation exercise carried out across J&K바카라 웹사이트this year, which resulted in the addition of seven new Assembly constituencies in the UT.바카라 웹사이트 Six of these constituencies were added to the Jammu division and one to Kashmir division, under the Jammu & Kashmir Reorganisation Act 2019.바카라 웹사이트
Following the additions, Kashmir region now has 47 Assembly seats while Jammu now바카라 웹사이트has 43 Assembly seats.바카라 웹사이트
Before Article 370, when J&K라이브 바카라 Assembly electoral rolls in the erstwhile state were drawn up according to the J&K Representation of the People Act 1957, wherein only permanent residents of J&K were eligible to get registered in the Assembly rolls.
After the ECI라이브 바카라 announcement, the final electoral roll of the UT is at 83,59,771 voters, out of which—42,91,687 are males and 바카라 웹사이트40,67,900 are females, while 184 voters are placed under third gender category.
The addition of new voters in J&K has made Assembly elections imperative in J&K, where such exercise was carried out in 2014.바카라 웹사이트