Srinagar, March 12
jin88bet.oneA team of the Election Commission of India (ECI) hak168app.babyeaded by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar will start discussions and meetings with political parties and the administration in J&K on Tuesday ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.
ak168app.clubThe 9-member team of the ECI headed by the CEC reached here on Monday for a 2-day visit.
Among the political parties, ks168app.sitewhose representatives will meet the ECI team, the National Conference (NC), Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have said that they will demand that the assembly polls be held simultaneously with the Lok Sabha polls in J&K.
The ic88ic88BJP has said the party will leave the decision for the ECI to take.
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has decided not to mic88eet the ECI team claiming that the party leaders have not been provided security.
The 5-mic88ember constitutional bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Justice D.Y. Chandrachud while upholding the Parliament’s right to abrogate Article 370 had instructed the Central government to hold the assembly elections in J&K by September 30, 2024.
The team ECI will also meet the Chief Secretary, Director General of Police (DGP), ADGPs, and the two divisionalr88l commissioners of Jammu and Kashmir divisions in addition to all the district development commissioners and the SSPs of the 20 districts to get a firsthand assessment of the ground situation.
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There are only fivop88e Lok Sabha seats in J&K while there are 90 seats in the legislative assembly of the UT. This number rose from the previous 87 to 90 after the Delimitation Commission allotted 47 seats to the Valley and 43 seats to the Jamsi88mu region while deleting 4 seats belonging to the Ladakh region, which is a separate UT now.
The ECI team will visit the Jammu division on Wednesday and return to Delhi the same day.
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