GUWAHATI: The Election Department, Assam, has received around 250 memoranda with suggestions, opinions, and objections on the draft delimitation proposals of Assembly and Parliamentary constituencies in Assam by July 11, the last date for receiving suggestions and objections.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) published the draft delimitation proposals for Assam on June 20, 2023. The draft proposals have not changed the number of Assembly (126) and Parliamentary (14) constituencies. It, however, renamed some of the constituencies, besides their realignment. The delimitation exercise was based on the 2001 Census data.
Sources in the Election Department said that it has scanned the memoranda received in Guwahati and sent them to the Election Commission of India. The department received some of the memoranda written in Assamese. It had to translate such memoranda and then send them to the Election Commission of India. The number of memoranda would be much higher as the Commissioner would receive some of the memoranda directly, some through the deputy commissioners, and around 250 through the Election Department, Assam. Even the State Government has submitted a memorandum over draft proposals to the ECI through the Election Department, Assam.
Ahead of its proposed hearing on July 20 and 21 in Guwahati, the Commission will examine all the memoranda. As per the present schedule, the ECI team will arrive in Guwahati on July 19, 2023. The hearing will be at Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra, Panjabari, Guwahati, on July 20 and 21 in separate representations. The ECI team will brief the media before winding up the visit in the afternoon of July 21.
Though the department has not disclosed anything, according to sources, most of the objections are about the change of the existing names of constituencies, the inclusion and exclusion of villages, the inclusion of areas not contiguous to some constituencies, the reservations of ST and SC constituencies, etc.
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