<p>PDP president <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tag/mehbooba-mufti" target="_blank">Mehbooba Mufti </a>on Monday said the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/supreme-court-dismisses-plea-against-jk-delimitation-1190690.html" target="_blank">Supreme Court dismissing the petition challenging the delimitation process </a>in Jammu and Kashmir was immaterial when legal challenges to the abrogation of Article 370 and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act were pending before the apex court.</p>.<p>“We have rejected the delimitation commission from the outset. It does not matter to us what the verdict is,” Mehbooba told reporters here, 41 km from Srinagar.</p>.<p>The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea challenging the government's decision to constitute the delimitation commission for redrawing the legislative assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir.</p>.<p>The former chief minister questioned the SC for delivering the verdict on the delimitation petition when other pleas were still pending consideration.</p>.<p>“The challenge to the Reorganisation Act (under which the delimitation process was carried out) is pending, a challenge to abrogation of Article 370 is pending before the SC. If all that is pending, how can they (the SC) give a verdict on this petition?” she asked.</p>.<p>Mehbooba charged that delimitation was a “tactical process of rigging before the elections. That's what they have done, converting the majority into a minority, in favour of the BJP. We have not even participated in the discussions of the delimitation commission.”</p>.<p>Asked if she still had faith in the judiciary, Mehbooba said the courts were the last hope and resort of anyone in the country.</p>.<p>“As far as the judiciary is concerned, where will a poor person go? Even (Chief) Justice D Y Chandrachud has said that lower courts are scared of giving bail. If a court is scared of giving bail, how would they deliver (fair) verdicts?” she said.</p>.<p>“There was a time when a verdict from the court unseated then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Today, people don’t even get bail from the courts,” she added.</p>
<p>PDP president <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tag/mehbooba-mufti" target="_blank">Mehbooba Mufti </a>on Monday said the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/supreme-court-dismisses-plea-against-jk-delimitation-1190690.html" target="_blank">Supreme Court dismissing the petition challenging the delimitation process </a>in Jammu and Kashmir was immaterial when legal challenges to the abrogation of Article 370 and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act were pending before the apex court.</p>.<p>“We have rejected the delimitation commission from the outset. It does not matter to us what the verdict is,” Mehbooba told reporters here, 41 km from Srinagar.</p>.<p>The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea challenging the government's decision to constitute the delimitation commission for redrawing the legislative assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir.</p>.<p>The former chief minister questioned the SC for delivering the verdict on the delimitation petition when other pleas were still pending consideration.</p>.<p>“The challenge to the Reorganisation Act (under which the delimitation process was carried out) is pending, a challenge to abrogation of Article 370 is pending before the SC. If all that is pending, how can they (the SC) give a verdict on this petition?” she asked.</p>.<p>Mehbooba charged that delimitation was a “tactical process of rigging before the elections. That's what they have done, converting the majority into a minority, in favour of the BJP. We have not even participated in the discussions of the delimitation commission.”</p>.<p>Asked if she still had faith in the judiciary, Mehbooba said the courts were the last hope and resort of anyone in the country.</p>.<p>“As far as the judiciary is concerned, where will a poor person go? Even (Chief) Justice D Y Chandrachud has said that lower courts are scared of giving bail. If a court is scared of giving bail, how would they deliver (fair) verdicts?” she said.</p>.<p>“There was a time when a verdict from the court unseated then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Today, people don’t even get bail from the courts,” she added.</p>