Slamming the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation for “unwarranted comments” on delimitation in Jammu and Kashmir, India asked it to refrain from carrying out its “communal agenda” at the behest of one country.
ndia hit out at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Monday for its “unwarranted comments” on the delimitation exercise in Jammu and Kashmir and asserted that the union territory is an integral and inalienable part of India.
In a subtle jab at Pakistan, it also asked the 57-nation bloc to refrain from carrying out its “communal agenda” at the behest of one country.
“We are dismayed that the OIC Secretariat has once again made unwarranted comments on the internal affairs of India. As in the past, the Government of India categorically rejects the assertions made by the OIC Secretariat on the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir which is an integral and inalienable part of India,” Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said in a statement.
“OIC should refrain from carrying out its communal agenda vis-à-vis India at the behest of one country,” he added.
The MEA’s sharp rejoinder came after the OIC expressed “deep concern” over delimitation of assembly constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir. It accused the Indian government of altering the demographic structure of the union territory and violating the rights of the Kashmiris.
Earlier, Pakistan’s Parliament had adopted a resolution “rejecting” the delimitation exercise in Jammu and Kashmir by India. It’s new foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari had condemned the redrawing of the electoral boundaries in J&K as “illegal” and a violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions.
Delimitation is the act of redrawing the boundaries of a constituency that votes for a Lok Sabha seat based on the change in its population over a period of time.
