Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav formed a Delimitation Commission, saying district and divisional boundaries will be reviewed again in the state.
Women's Reservation Bill: Home Minister Amit Shah asserted on Wednesday that census and delimitation will begin soon after the Lok Sabha elections 2024.
ANP leaders said that the ECP assured them of squeezing the timelines of delimitation and that the general elections would not go beyond mid-February.
Assam will now have a total of 35 districts after the creation of the four new ones. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced this decision after chairing the 100th Cabinet meeting of his government.
ECP's latest schedule shows that the delimitation process will take nearly four months, making it impossible for the elections to be conducted within 90 days.
Supreme Court refused to stay the delimitation process of Election Commission initiated in Assam, saying it wouldn’t issue any order restraining the poll panel to take any further steps regarding the delimitation exercise in the state.
Himanta Biswa Sarma insisted that the only people who opposed the draft proposal were those who were either facing electoral defeat or did not comprehend the procedure.
CEC Rajiv Kumar informed that those who participated in the exercise included the TMC, BJP, CPI, CPI(M), NCP, Asom Gana Parishad, AIDUF, Bodoland People's Front, United People's Party Liberal, and three more registered parties, Assam Jatiya Parishad, Lok Raksha Party and Raijor Dal.
SC on J&K delimitation: The counsel appearing for the two petitioners, Haji Abdul Gani Khan and Mohammad Ayub Mattoo, had argued that the delimitation exercise was carried out in violation of the scheme of the Constitution.
Delimitation of municipal wards: The Court issued notice on all three petitions and listed the matter for December 15, 2022.
Gorakhpur news: The changing of names was part of the delimitation exercise, under which the number of wards went up to 80 in Gorakhpur, with several of these named after iconic personalities and freedom fighters.
The report of the commission will form the basis for future assembly polls in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
India's external affairs ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said the OIC should refrain from carrying out its communal agenda vis-a-vis India at the behest of one country
Redrawing the electoral map of J&K, a 3-member Delimitation Commission earmarked 47 assembly seats for Kashmir division and 43 for Jammu in its final order submitted just a day before its two-year tenure was to end.
The term of the panel was supposed to end on March 6. Formed in March 2020, the panel was granted a one-year extension last year. Headed by former Supreme Court judge Ranjana Prakash Desai, it has Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra and the state election commissioner of Jammu and Kashmir as its ex-officio members.
National Conference MPs, who are associate members of the Delimitation Commission, have questioned the very basis of the delimitation exercise, saying the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act has been challenged in the Supreme Court.
Amit Shah released the District Good Governance Index for 20 districts of Jammu and Kashmir, a move that will bring Jammu and Kashmir the first Union Territory in the country to have a Good Governance Index.
The PAGD had proposed to hold a peaceful demonstration in Srinagar on Saturday against the proposal of the Delimitation Commission of increasing six seats in Jammu division and one in Kashmir.
India's Number One and the most followed Super Prime Time News Show ‘Aaj Ki Baat – Rajat Sharma Ke Saath was launched just before the 2014 General Elections.
The Delimitation Commission, set up to redraw the assembly seats of the union territory, is learnt to have proposed six additional seats for Jammu region and one for Kashmir Valley in its 'Paper 1' discussed with its five associate members on Monday.
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