India unveils redrawn electoral map for India-administered Kashmir, giving greater representation to Muslim-majority region's Hindu areas and paving way for fresh elections in the disputed region
New Delhi redraws electoral map of India-administered Kashmir ahead of elections, giving greater representation to Muslim-majority region's Hindu areas and sparking accusations of"gerrymandering" and"settler colonialism."
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government annexed the disputed region in 2019 and broke it up into two federal territories as part of a move to tighten its grip over the region, which is at the heart of more than 70 years of hostility between India and Pakistan. Indian authorities said a delimitation commission had finalised 90 assembly constituencies for the region, excluding Ladakh, with 43 seats for Jammu and 47 for Kashmir. Earlier, Jammu had 37 seats and the Kashmir valley 46.
"The Commission's recommendation of adding six assembly seats to the Jammu region and only one seat to Kashmir smacks of its pre-determined erroneous assessment of the situation. Many observers had already suspected that the Commission would play the nefarious game in tandem with the Union government!"
"No amount of gerrymandering will change the ground reality, which is that whenever elections are held the voter will punish the BJP and its proxies for what they have done to J&K over the last 4 years," the National Conference said on Twitter.
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