Political events are battling the brand new electoral map of Anantnag constituency(Representational)
New Delhi:
The elections to the redrawn Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat, which was slated to go to polls on Could 7 (third part), has been deferred to Could 25 (sixth part) by the Election Fee after a number of political events of the Union Territory requested to shift the date as a result of logistic and connectivity points within the area.
A number of leaders together with Jammu and Kashmir BJP unit chief Ravinder Raina, Jammu and Kashmir Apni Celebration chief Altaf Bukhari, Individuals’s Convention chief Imran Ansari and others had approached the Election Fee requesting for rescheduling of polls to the seat as a result of adversarial climate situations.
“Numerous representations have been obtained from totally different political events of the UT of Jammu and Kashmir for shifting the date of ballot of election from 3-Anantnag-Rajouri Parliamentary Constituency as a result of numerous logistic, communication and pure barrier of of connectivity turning out as hindrance in campaigning which in flip tantamount to lack of truthful alternatives for the contesting candidates which can have an effect on the ballot course of,” the ballot physique mentioned.
The fee mentioned that after contemplating a report from the administration and analysing the bottom scenario within the constituency, it determined to revise the date of the ballot beneath Part 56 of the Illustration of Individuals Act, 1951.
All different statutory processes together with “nomination, scrutiny and withdrawal are already over with 20 contesting candidates. Besides ballot date, no modifications in any a part of the schedule,” sources within the Election Fee mentioned.
The Lok Sabha election is the primary main ballot for the reason that scrapping of Article 370 in 2019 which bifurcated the state into two union territories.
Former Chief Ministers of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah (Nationwide Convention) and Mehbooba Mufti (PDP) had urged the Election Fee final week to not postpone the polls.Apparently, BJP and Individuals’s Convention who had demanded deferment of polls aren’t contesting in Anantnag-Rajouri. Now, the BJP is prone to again the Apni Celebration candidate.
Political events are battling the brand new electoral map of the Anantnag constituency because the delimitation has drastically redrawn electoral boundaries.
Now, mountains divide one a part of the Anantnag constituency from the others in Rajouri and Poonch. In between is Shopian district which has been made a part of the Srinagar seat – resulting in a geographical disconnect.
This has thrown some severe challenges on the events who have to marketing campaign in two disconnected areas.
The polls will resolve the destiny of 20 candidates, together with Mehbooba Mufti who’s dealing with a problem from Nationwide Convention chief Mian Altaf.
Voting in Udhampur was held on April 19, in Jammu on April 26, in Srinagar, will probably be on Could 13, in Baramulla on Could 20 and Anantnag-Rajouri on Could 25.
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