Wrap up delimitation by February, says Ghulam Nabi Azad

Srinagar, November 27

The Centre should conclude the delimitation process in Jammu and Kashmir by February and hold the Assembly elections immediately after the winter, Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Saturday.

Addressing a workers' meeting in the Devsar area of south Kashmir's Kulgam, about 75 km from here, Azad also said it was not feasible to conduct polls in the next four months of winter.

CM post not priority

The priority is not the CM. It is how to restore the August 4, 2019, position, which will happen by restoring the statehood and then holding the poll. Ghulam Nabi Azad, Congress leader

“The next four months are not feasible for elections and even if they (Centre) wanted, we would have said no. We all had said at the all-party meet (called by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in June) that the statehood be restored first and then the delimitation be taken up,” he said.

“But, the government did not accept that. So, they should conclude the delimitation process by February and once the winter gets over, conduct the elections in April,” he told reporters. — PTI