Delimitation Commission for Jammu and Kashmir signs final assembly reconstruction order

Photo: ANI

The final order for restructuring of assembly seats in the Union Territory has now been signed by the Delimitation Commission for Jammu and Kashmir.

The Delimitation Commission was constituted in March 2020. For Assembly elections to be held in the newly formed UT, delimitation of seats will be necessary. In August 2019, the Jammu and Kashmir was bifurcated into union territories namely Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

The Commission is headed by former Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai, and comprises chief election commissioner Sushil Chandra and deputy election commissioner Chander Bhushan Kumar, state election commissioner (SEC) KK Sharma and chief electoral officer Hridesh Kumar as its ex-officio members.

On Independence Day in 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that elections would be held in Jammu and Kashmir after the delimitation process in the Union Territory was over.