New Delhi: Members of the Legislative Assembly from the Union Territories including Lok Sabha and State Assembly MPs, States, Delhi, Pondicherry and Jammu and Kashmir are participating in the Presidential Election. The votes of MPs and MLAs have separate value.
Before the partition of Jammu and Kashmir in August 2019, there were 83 Assembly constituencies. According to the Jammu and Kashmir Reconstruction Act, the legislature will be formed in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Ladakh region will be directly managed by the Central Government. The Central Government has announced that elections to the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly will be held after the completion of the task of defining the Assembly constituencies.
In a statement issued last week, the Jammu and Kashmir constituency definition commission recommended a 90-member body for the newly formed Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
This is not the first time a presidential election has been held without members of the state legislature. Despite the dissolution of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly in 1974, Bakrudeen Ali Ahmed was elected President of the Republic.
But the presidential election will not take place without the representation of Jammu and Kashmir. Jammu and Kashmir MPs will vote and elect the President to the presidency.
In 1952, the MP’s vote value was 494. In the subsequent presidential elections, the MP’s vote value increased. In the last presidential election since 1997, the MP’s vote was set at 708. With no members in the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly, the MP’s vote share is likely to fall to 700.
President Ramnath Govind’s term ends on July 24. Before that, a new president must be elected.
Prior to that, the Election Commission was trying to fill the vacancies in the state assembly and state assembly constituencies through by-elections.
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