2022 saw delimitation process' completion, electoral rolls' revision in JK

Political parties in Jammu and Kashmir, except the BJP, are disappointed as another year has passed by without the Centre living up to its promise of restoring statehood and holding assembly elections in the youngest union territory of the country.

As the delimitation process and revision of the electoral rolls were completed in Jammu and Kashmir, the political parties were hopeful that the Election Commission will take the next logical step of announcing the poll schedule to the assembly of the union territory.

However, this did not happen with 2022 coming to an end.

The biggest news of the year emanating from Kashmir, however, was the targeted killings of Kashmiri Pandits in the valley by terrorists, which led to hue and cry across the country.

A large number of Kashmiri Pandits, who had returned to the valley under the PM's Employment Package announced in 2007, fled to Jammu following killing of Rahul Bhat by terrorists inside his office in Chadoora area of Budgam district in ..