EC move sticky for Mulayam

Vijay Upadhyay

Agra. The fresh delimitation of Assembly and Parliamentary seats in UP could become a major issue this year for Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, who has been freely passing hints of his intentions to get the Assembly constituency of Jaswantnagar into Kannauj, the Parliamentary constituency of his son Akhilesh.

In a 'delimitation meeting' in Agra on Tuesday, Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalswami hinted that the EC would stress upon limiting the Parliamentary seats in their respective districts instead of borrowing some Assembly seats from other districts, just to ensure demographic uniformity on the seats.

With the Election Commission setting the deadline for the delimitation of all Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies in UP to be completed by 31st March, 2007 and the completion of hearings for the delimitation to be completed by September 13, Mulayam Singh's efforts to get Jaswantnagar included in the Kannauj Parliamentary constituency came close to being realised when the Election Commissioner finally announced in Agra that Jaswantnagar had been provisionally included in Kannauj subject to the completion of hearing of the objections on the issue.

Currently included in the Etawah Parliamentary constituency, the inclusion of Jaswantnagar Assembly seat in Kannauj could turn the tables in the upcoming Assembly election in UP towards Mulayam, presenting him with a political advantage and this could be the precise reason why the provisional inclusion of this seat into Kannauj has faced the highest number of objections till date with almost all political parties except the Samajwadi Party, objecting on the issue.

Sources claimed that that this step could not be justified either demographically or politically as the Etawah district already has just three Assembly seats and if Jaswantnagar was passed over to Kannauj, this could not conform to the idea of limiting Assembly seats into their respective districts.

Besides, they claimed, including Jaswantnagar into Kannauj would create several logistical and practical problems, with the Kannauj Parliamentary constituency sharing Assembly constituencies from four districts including itself, if the delimitation of the seats was accepted in its proposed form.

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