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National Conference president and former J& K Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah has said that his party will file a petition in the Supreme Court against the Delimitation Commission’s recommendations on new Assembly seats in Jammu and Kashmir, PTI reported.
The National Conference and other regional parties such as the Peoples Democratic Party and Peoples Conference, have objected to the recommendations.
In an interview to PTI, Abdullah said that he had told the commission that the basis of the delimitation exercise was illegal as a petition filed by the National Conference against the bifurcation of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories was pending in the Supreme Court.
The National Conference chief said that the Supreme Court’s decision on the matter will be binding on the Delimitation Commission also. He also noted that the commission had been formed after the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution, which granted special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.
