No Meeting Elections In J&K For Now, ECI Prolongs Wait – Kashmir Reader

Cites Safety Causes For Unfeasibility Of Simultaneous Polls In J&Okay

New Delhi: The Meeting election in Jammu and Kashmir shall be held after the Lok Sabha polls as organising each concurrently just isn’t viable from the safety standpoint, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar stated on Saturday as he introduced the schedule of the final election and a few Meeting and bypolls.
The Lok Sabha polls shall be held in seven phases starting from April 19 and the outcomes shall be introduced on June 4.
Requested why Meeting polls usually are not being held in Jammu and Kashmir together with the Lok Sabha election, the CEC stated forces need to be supplied to each candidate within the Union Territory, which isn’t attainable at a time when elections are being held throughout the nation.
He additionally stated the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act was amended in December 2023 after a delimitation train and the clock had began ticking for the Election Fee (EC) since then.
“The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act was handed in 2019. There was a provision for 107 seats, 24 of which had been in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Then the delimitation fee got here and there was a change within the seats…. The reorganisation Act and delimitation weren’t in sync. That occurred in December 2023. So our meter began working from December 2023,” Kumar stated.
“All events in Jammu and Kashmir stated the Meeting election must be held with the parliamentary polls, however your complete administrative equipment stated it can’t be executed concurrently. Each Meeting section would have 10-12 candidates, which might imply greater than 1,000 candidates. Each candidate must be supplied forces. It was not attainable presently,” the CEC added.
“However we stand dedicated that as quickly as these elections are over, we’ll maintain elections there,” he asserted.

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