Key Points
Rajouri/Jammu: Divided by religion, language, culture and Pir Panjal range, two regions of Jammu and Kashmir have been brought together by delimitation under the administrative unit of Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat...
While the delimitation commission saw the Jammu & Kashmir region as one single Union Territory, justifying the formation of this seat, it acknowledged the unique issues arising due to factors like competing political aspirations of thegeographically and culturally distinctive Jammu and the Kashmir regions among others...
The ongoing Lok Sabha election is set to be the first election after the Anantnag-Rajouri seat was redrawn, Article 370 abrogated, and the Pahari community given a reservation..
As the first trans Pir Panjal political unit in the 178-year history of modern Jammu and Kashmir since its formation in 1846, the Anantnag-Rajouri constituency holds the key to the future of politics in the former state, political analyst Zafar Choudhary write in The Dispatch..
Sharing his thoughts about the newly created Anantnag-Rajouri seat, former minister and PDP leader Naeem Akhtar tells ThePrint, You see not only this seat but the entire electoral cartography in Jammu and Kashmir has undergone a change, and so far as assembly election is concerned, thats already rigged 50 percent because of the delimitation...
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