NEW DELHI, May 27 - The Lok Sabha Speaker has nominated the associate members of the Delimitation Commission of four northeastern states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Manipur under Article 5 of the Delimitation Act, 2002.
The associate members nominated from Assam are Pallab Lochan Das, Abdul Khaleque, Dr Rajdeep Roy, Dilip Saikia and Naba Kumar Sarania.
From Arunachal Pradesh Kiren Rijiju and Tapir Gao have been nominated as associated members, while Tokheho Yepthomi and Dr Larho S Plaze (Nagaland) and Dr Ranjan Singh Rajkumar (Manipur) are the other ones.
Earlier this month, the Delimitation Commission wrote to the Speakers of the Lok Sabha and Assemblies of the four northeastern states to name the associate members to the panel and the Assam Assembly Speaker Hitendra Nath Goswami nominated five MLAs � Ramendra Narayan Kalita, Kamalakhya Dey Purkayastha, Hafiz Bashir Ahmed, Mrinal Kumar Saikia and Rabiram Narzary.
The move by the commission has set in motion the process for redrawing parliamentary and assembly constituencies of Assam, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, and Nagaland.
