Delimitation Panel writes to speakers; Assam names 5 MLAs

Guwahati: After Delimitation Commission wrote to the speakers of the Lok Sabha and assemblies of the four northeastern states to name associate members to the panel, the Assam legislative assembly has nominated five MLAs.

The move by the commission sets in motion the process for redrawing parliamentary and assembly constituencies of Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland.

Jammu and Kashmir at present has no legislative assembly and is a Union Territory with a provision of a legislature.


Assam assembly Speaker Hitendra Nath Goswami nominated Ramendra Narayan Kalita from (Asom Gana Parishad), Kamalakhya Dey Purkayastha (Congress), Hafiz Bashir Ahmed (All India United Democratic Front), Mrinal Kumar Saikia (BJP) and Rabiram Narzary (Bodoland People’s Front). The commission will also have five parliamentarians from the state as members.

The commission was constituted on March 6 by the Centre for the delimitation of assembly and parliamentary constituencies in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Nagaland, and Jammu and Kashmir.

(Inputs: PTI from New Delhi)