Delimitation Commission’s draft report pits people against each other on religious, ethnic lines says Tariq Karra

Taking to micro-blogging site Twitter, Karra said that Delimitation Commission draft report is the “exercise of pitting people against each other on religious and ethnic line”.

“Delimitation Commissions Draft report, A very successful exercise of pitting people against each other on religious and ethnic lines,” he tweeted.

While quoting Simone de Beauvoir, Karra said: “Unless we didn’t have facilitators and collaborators amongst our own selves, the oppressor wouldn’t have been this much strong.”

He also said that it is a “message to the people and those facilitators who have been instrumental in providing a foothold to the oppressors, directly or indirectly”.

“It is an outcome of a nefarious design of disempowering a particular region and a sect of our pluralistic society. Carving out a geographically unnatural and linguistically divergent Parliamentary Constituency like Anantnag-Rajauri is a glaring example of that,” he added.

Notably, the Delimitation Commission on Friday sent a second draft report to five Parliament Members, who are part of the Commission, and asked them to submit their objections, if any, by February 14.