The Delimitation Commission, set up to redraw the Assembly constituencies of Jammu and Kashmir, has been given two more months to complete the exercise, a notification from the Union Law Ministry said on Tuesday.
The extension will further delay an announcement to hold elections in Jammu and Kashmir that is now a Union Territory but with a provision for a legislature.
The term of the panel, headed by former Supreme Court judge, Justice (retired) Ranjana Prakash Desai, was coming to end on March 6. While Chief Election Commissioner Shushil Chandra and the Election Commissioner of Jammu and Kashmir are ex-officio members of the Commission, all the five Lok Sabha members from the Union Territory are its associate members.
