{"id":36467,"date":"2026-04-15T07:19:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/?p=36467"},"modified":"2026-04-15T07:19:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:19:50","slug":"opposition-must-decide-joint-response-cm-omar-on-proposed-delimitation-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/opposition-must-decide-joint-response-cm-omar-on-proposed-delimitation-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition Must Decide Joint Response: CM Omar On Proposed Delimitation Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR, Apr 15: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said the INDIA bloc must collectively decide its response to the proposed parliamentary bill, stressing that a unified stand was necessary.<br \/>\nSpeaking with reporters in Srinagar, the Chief Minister raised concerns over past delimitation exercises, alleging that constituency restructuring had politically favoured the BJP and its allies.<br \/>\nHe said he would attend an INDIA bloc meeting in Delhi to be held at the residence of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, where the opposition is expected to formulate a joint strategy on the proposed bill.<br \/>\nHe said the INDIA bloc will have to decide together what will be the response to this bill and what will be their role in Parliament. \u201cIndividual parties acting alone would not be effective. There is a need for collective decision-making within the alliance,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nReferring to the past delimitation exercise, he said the distribution of seats, the way constituencies were made, the way maps were drawn and the way voters were shifted, the purpose was only that somehow the BJP and its allies should benefit.<br \/>\nHe further said the proposed changes in parliamentary composition, including an increase in the number of Lok Sabha members and provisions for women\u2019s representation, would be examined collectively by the opposition bloc.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36468\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36468\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36468\" src=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/671731077_1272652581725051_7333519630366841759_n-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"Opposition Must Decide Joint Response: CM Omar On Proposed Delimitation Bill\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/671731077_1272652581725051_7333519630366841759_n-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/671731077_1272652581725051_7333519630366841759_n-1024x622.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/671731077_1272652581725051_7333519630366841759_n-768x466.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/671731077_1272652581725051_7333519630366841759_n-549x333.jpg 549w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/671731077_1272652581725051_7333519630366841759_n-461x280.jpg 461w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/671731077_1272652581725051_7333519630366841759_n-233x142.jpg 233w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/671731077_1272652581725051_7333519630366841759_n-230x140.jpg 230w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/671731077_1272652581725051_7333519630366841759_n-360x219.jpg 360w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/671731077_1272652581725051_7333519630366841759_n-100x61.jpg 100w, https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/671731077_1272652581725051_7333519630366841759_n.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opposition Must Decide Joint Response: CM Omar On Proposed Delimitation Bill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR, Apr 15: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said the INDIA bloc must collectively decide its response to the proposed parliamentary bill, stressing that a unified stand was necessary. Speaking with reporters in Srinagar, the Chief Minister raised concerns over past delimitation exercises, alleging that constituency restructuring had politically favoured the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,15,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-header","category-jammu-and-kashmir","category-national"],"gutentor_comment":0,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Opposition Must Decide Joint Response: CM On Delimitation Bill<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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