evidence: The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 specified that the Lieutenant Governor may nominate two members to the Legislative Assembly to give representation to women, if in his opinion, they are not adequately represented. [...] The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2023, which was cleared by Parliament in December 2023, the Lieutenant Governor may nominate not more than two members, one of whom shall be a woman, from the community of Kashmiri Migrants, to the Assembly. The Bill adds that the Lieutenant Governor may also nominate to the Assembly one member representing displaced persons from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK). [...] Riyaz emphasised the crucial distinction between Jammu and Kashmir's status and that of Puducherry, responding to comparisons between the two regions. "Puducherry was always a Union Territory, while J&K was a state that has been reorganised as a UT," he explained, underscoring the significance of this change.