The AAP on Thursday objected to the delimitation commission's draft report flagging wide variations in the number of electorates in different municipal wards in Delhi and demanded equal distribution of voters across seats.

The AAP raised multiple objections to the recommendations made by the delimitation committee set up by the Centre to re-carve municipal wards in Delhi, and also demanded that the civic polls be held "at the earliest".

The AAP delegation included AAP spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj, AAP MLA Durgesh Pathak and Azadpur Mandi Chairman Adil Khan. “We had two major concerns on the recommendations of the committee. Firstly, as per report, some of the newly created wards will have a population around 90-95 thousand while the others will only have a population of 30 thousand. Every ward gets the same amount of funds and this will create a problem in governing wards with a large population,” said Pathak. “We suggested that every ward should have a uniform population so that the elected councillors are best placed to serve the citizens of their constituency,” said Pathak. “Secondly, they have created island type of areas which are completely cut off from their main wards and landlocked by another ward from all directions. There are also some discrepancies related to the names of the wards as well. We have submitted comprehensive feedback to the Committee,” said Pathak.

Further, in its letter submitted to commission, the AAP has alleged there were several constituencies where the number of wards were neither increased nor reduced, but certain areas have been moved from one ward into another ward. “The Delimitation Committee has to tell the rationale behind this move to the people of Delhi. Previously, the population was uniformly spread across the wards in the respective Assembly Constituencies and they had almost similar populations,” the letter stated.

“The Committee has arbitrarily changed the boundaries of the wards and now, some wards have a population which is as less as 35 thousand while some wards have as much as 93 thousand people.