{"id":39924,"date":"2021-08-31T16:34:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T11:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/committed-to-hold-assembly-polls-soon-after-delimitation-process-ends-jk-lg-manoj-sinha\/"},"modified":"2021-08-31T16:34:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T11:04:38","slug":"committed-to-hold-assembly-polls-soon-after-delimitation-process-ends-jk-lg-manoj-sinha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=39924","title":{"rendered":"Committed to hold Assembly polls soon after delimitation process ends: J&#038;K LG Manoj Sinha"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><em>Says Foreign Minister\u2019s speech on Taliban situation in Parliament reply to all queries<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Srinagar, Aug 31:<\/em><\/strong><em> Jammu and Kashmir lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Tuesday said that the Government of India is committed to hold Assembly elections in J&amp;K Union Territory soon after the Delimitation Commission (DC) will complete its exercise.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn the August 15 speech, the Prime Minister Narendera Modi stated that the Delimitation Commission was working on a fast-track basis. Apart from that Union Home Minister Amit Shah has already stated on the floor of the house that statehood will be granted to J&amp;K at an appropriate time,\u201d the LG said addressing a press conference on the side-lines of a function at SKICC here on the banks of famous Dal Lake, as per news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The LG said that soon after the DC will complete its exercise, Assembly elections will be held in J&amp;K. \u201cAs far as the dates of elections, it\u2019s the prerogative of the Election Commission of India,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pertinently, the LG said that the number of Assembly seats will go up from existing 87 to 94 in J&amp;K. Interestingly, during its visit to J&amp;K, the Delimitation Commission members had stated that the process of delimitation was not a mere athematic. Replying to a query, whether there was a possibility of any impact on J&amp;K in the wake of Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, the LG said that the foreign minister has already made a speech in the Parliament over the issue and people should stick to that\u2014(KNO)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Says Foreign Minister\u2019s speech on Taliban situation in Parliament reply to all queries Srinagar, Aug 31: Jammu and Kashmir lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Tuesday said that the Government of India is committed to hold Assembly elections in J&amp;K Union Territory soon after the Delimitation Commission (DC) will complete its exercise. \u201cIn the August 15 speech, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39924","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\/39924","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=39924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}