Former RBI governor Duvvuri Subbarao writes in FT about how southern states may face political & economic consequences of their successful population control.
NDA ally Chandrababu Naidu’s stance, as told to ThePrint, diminishes possibility of population-based redrawing of Lok Sabha constituencies—a sore issue for southern states.
Up until 1976, seats in the Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, and state assemblies were reallocated to maintain nearly equal population representation. But the 42nd Amendment froze the number of seats until the 2001 Census.
On 22 December 1952, during a debate on the Delimitation Commission Bill in Rajya Sabha, legislator and freedom fighter K Rama Rao criticised India's electoral representation structure and called for deeper reforms.
‘This delimitation issue has stirred strong emotions in the South. You have MK Stalin telling people to make more babies’, said political commentator Neerja Chowdhury at the Delhi launch of Ravi K Mishra’s new book, 'Demography, Representation, Delimitation'.
Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.
In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
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