Law Minister of India : Sikkim Delimitation Completed

delhi: Next general elections may be held on the basis of the newly-carved out constituencies "only if these delimitation orders in respect of all the parliamentary and assembly constituencies are issued by the Delimitation Commission and notified by the president by then", the minister said in another reply. The commission has completed delimitation in Kerala, Tripura, Mizoram, Goa, Pondicherry, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Punjab, Maharashtra, Sikkim, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Orissa, Gujarat, Uttaranchal, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Meghalaya. "The commission has been given an extension up to July 31, 2008, by which time, it is hoped, it would complete its work," Bhardwaj said. The government, however, has received numerous representations challenging provisions of the delimitation act, the procedure adopted by the commission and the guidelines issued by it, he added.