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TopicDelimitation

Topic: Delimitation

‘Power with one’ — BJP’s Rajen Gohain hits out at CM Sarma, accuses him of ‘understanding’ with AIUDF

Rajen Gohain resigned as chairman of Assam Food and Civil Supplies Corporation Friday, in protest over delimitation of Nagaon Lok Sabha seat.

Delimitation will lead to colonisation of South. It’s UP, Bihar’s reward for underperforming

Federalism is central to India’s Constitution. Delimitation will dilute it while rewarding underperforming states.

India should have 50 or more states. UP’s dominance causing resentment

The less populous US has 50 states and the more homogenous China has 34 administrative regions, why shouldn’t India consider establishing fifty or more administrative regions?

Why EC’s Assam delimitation draft has Opposition crying foul — ‘hasty, favours BJP’

BJP and its allies have welcomed the Election Commission’s delimitation proposal, but opposition parties have claimed it is partisan and questioned its timing ahead of 2024 LS polls.

Delimitation is the last thing India needs now. It will widen the north-south divide

If the Lok Sabha seats are reallocated in proportion to each state’s projected population in 2026, all the South Indian states would end up losing some seats.

If BJP cannot win South states, it’ll make them irrelevant — through delimitation

BJP’s biggest advantage in crossing the 2024 election hurdle is the failure of disparate opposition parties to coalesce in the face of impending annihilation.

In 1st address on US trip, Rahul talks of new Parliament’s 888 seats, vows to release caste census

Rahul Gandhi is on a 6-day visit to the US, during which he will be spending time in Silicon Valley, Washington DC and New York meeting the Indian diaspora.

In 1st Assam delimitation since 1976, EC faces NRC challenge, claims of exercise being ‘politically motivated’

Another concern voiced by Opposition parties is that the exercise sees redrawing of Assembly & Lok Sabha constituencies using the 2001 and not the 2011 Census figures.

Delhi can beat Tokyo by 2030. But structural issues like CM-LG tussle won’t let it happen

Delhi's political leadership is not representative of urban voters. Priorities of the hinterland trump voices from metros.

SC order dismissing challenge to J&K delimitation — ‘presumption of constitutionality of laws’

Bench of justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul & A.S. Oka held Monday that there was nothing 'illegal' about delimitation exercise to redraw legislative assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies in J&K.

On Camera

Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.