Ambedkar carefully considered North-South differences when making India's federal structure. He believed that federalism should be based on the principle of equality of power.
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.
Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.
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