Topic: Delimitation

Former RBI governor Duvvuri Subbarao writes in FT about how southern states may face political & economic consequences of their successful population control.

Bloomberg says the Prada-Kolhapuri fracas serves as proof of the power brandished by the Indian troll army. 

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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.

The Supreme Court’s delimitation order for Manipur and other Northeast states risks deepening ethnic fault lines in a volatile region.

In 'Demography, Representation, Delimitation', Ravi K Mishra draws on 150 years of census data to tackle myths about demography and delimitation.

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'.

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