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POPULATION NOT SOLE CRITERIA: CEC CHANDRA

YB WEB DESK. Dated: 5/14/2022 1:54:53 PM

New Delhi, May 13 The population was an important but not the sole criterion while carrying out the delimitation exercise in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra said on Friday and asserted that the union territory has to be seen as ”one unit” where the entire population has to be given representation in 90 assembly constituencies. Chandra, who was an ex-officio member of the delimitation panel which gave its final order on restructuring the assembly seats in Jammu and Kashmir earlier this month, also said there were ”lots of problems” with the earlier delimitation and those have been corrected now. He was responding to questions on criticism from certain quarters that going by the population ratio, Kashmir Division got a lesser number of seats as compared to Jammu. ”There were only 12 districts when the earlier delimitation was done. Now there are 20 districts. Many constituencies were spread in more than one district. Many villages were spread into two or three constituencies. So these things will have to be rectified,” he said.