{"id":30397,"date":"2020-07-24T21:34:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T16:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=30397"},"modified":"2020-07-24T21:34:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T16:04:02","slug":"jk-mps-in-rajya-sabha-to-complete-their-term-in-february-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=30397","title":{"rendered":"J&#038;K MPs in Rajya Sabha to complete their term in February 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Srinagar<\/strong>: Jammu &amp; Kashmir\u2019s four Rajya Sabha members will complete their six-year term in February next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Details available with news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) reveal that incumbent MPs of J&amp;K Union Territory in Upper House of the Parliament will complete their six-year term between February 10 to 15 next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Fayaz Ahmad Mir (PDP) and Shamsher Singh Manhas(BJP) will complete their innings on February 10, the six-year term of leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad (Congress) and Nazir Ahmad Laway( PDP) will end on February 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nearly a month before formation of PDP-BJP government in 2015, Mir, Laway and Manhas managed to win after tacit understanding between the two parties. Azad emerged victorious due to support from National Conference and independent MLAs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With J&amp;K presently without Legislative Assembly, the UT could remain without representation in Rajya Sabha in absence of electoral college for these seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMLAs of J&amp;K UT Assembly constitute electoral college for these seats. There seems no chance of holding Assembly elections in J&amp;K in near future due to ongoing delimitation process. So these seats could remain vacant for some time,\u201d an official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is worthwhile to mention here that J&amp;K\u2019s representation in Rajya Sabha as well as remaining term of its incumbent MPs was protected by The Jammu &amp; Kashmir Re-Organisation Act enacted by the Parliament in August last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In March this year, the Centre had defined Electoral College for J&amp;K\u2019s Rajya Sabha seats by making amendments in the Representation of Peoples Act-1951.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the amendments notified in Jammu &amp; Kashmir Re-Organization (adaptation of central laws) Order-2020, MLAs of J&amp;K UT Legislative Assembly will constitute Electoral College for these seats\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: Jammu &amp; Kashmir\u2019s four Rajya Sabha members will complete their six-year term in February next year. Details available with news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) reveal that incumbent MPs of J&amp;K Union Territory in Upper House of the Parliament will complete their six-year term between February 10 to 15 next year. While Fayaz Ahmad Mir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}