Explanation:

The Delimitation Commission, set up to redraw the Assembly seats of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, has proposed six additional seats for the Jammu region and one for Kashmir Valley in its `Paper 1` discussed with its five associate members recently.

Delimitation is defined as “the act or process of fixing limits or boundaries of territorial constituencies in a country or a province having a legislative body.”

In the Indian context, it means the process of redrawing boundaries of Lok Sabha and state Assembly seats to represent changes in the population. Only after this is done an election can be conducted.

In the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, the delimitation of Lok Sabha seats was governed by the Indian Constitution

But the delimitation of its Assembly seats was governed separately by the Jammu and Kashmir Constitution and Jammu and Kashmir Representation of the People Act, 1957.

Following the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019, Jammu and Kashmir lost its special status and became a Union Territory.