Jammu: The Congress today held a peaceful protest demonstration against the visiting delimitation Commission terming the visit as eye wash and draft report as totally biased and politically motivated and denial of proper opportunity to the opposition to represent the people grievances.
Led by JKPCC Chief G.A. Mir and other top leadership, the protest dharna was held at Shaheedi Chowk in the morning to highlight of the people’s resentment in general against the draft report alleging bias and motivated report at the behest of ruling BJP.
JKPCC Chief G.A. Mir said that the report reflects the gross violation of norms and parameters for the delimitation as the Commission has indulged in dissection and devastation of the Assembly segments and Lok Sabha constituencies, ignoring the ground realities..
He said after over two years draft report was circulated with only short time for filing objections followed by a hasty visit of two days as eye wash. The JKPCC filed detailed objections to the report expecting a proper hearing but only individual leaders were invited instead of political parties especially Congress, as the commission has no answer to the querries raised by the Congress party based on facts & law..
The draft report has violated the basic norms and disturbed the most of constituencies for political interests, ignoring the criteria of population, topography, physical features of areas, connectivity and public convenience, causing great hardships to the people. There are large variations of population of the proposed constituencies as some constituencies are having 37000 population, while others have touched two Lac population, thus widening the gap and adding to injustice to the people, he added.
The Congress party wanted to properly represent the voice of the people from all districts and area but denied proper opportunity like other opposition, who were clubbed with districts. He also demanded justice to different districts, regions and areas as well as communities already highlighted in the party’s objections to the draft report.
Prominent others who joined dharna included Working President Shri Raman Bhalla, Vice President Shri Mula Ram, Chief Spokesperson Ravinder Sharma, General Secretaries Yogesh Sawhney, Th. Balwan Singh (Ex-MLA), T.S. Bajwa (Ex-MP), EX-MLAs Th. Balbir Singh, Ved Mahajan, Ashok Dogra, Indu Pawar, Kuldeep Raj Verma, DCC President Hari Singh Chib (Jammu), K.C. Bhagat (Udhampur), Pankaj Dogra (Kathua), Sanjeev Sharma, Babal Gupta (Samba) Rajesh Sadotra (Reasi), Vinod Sharma, Corporators Dwarka Choudhary, Ritu Choudhar, Kamal Singh, Uday Chib (PYC), Shiv Kumar Sharma (INTUC), Dr. Rashid Choudhary, Shashi Sharma, Pawan Raina, Sanjeev Panda, Pranav Shagotra, Satish Sharma, Dr. Karan Bhagat, Suresh Dogra, Rajveer Singh, Gajan Singh, Col. Swarn Singh, Kapil Singh, Sahil Sharma, Amrit Bali , Ricky Dalotra, Dr. R.K. Khajuria, M.L. Malagar,Pawan Dev Sing, Gurmeet Singh, Pt. Vishwa Nath, Vijay Singh, Atul Sharma, Chander Sheikhar Sharma, Sat Pal Spolia, Surinder Dogra, Anil Kumar, Jatinder Singh Dimpa, Arti Devi and others.