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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
A common thread runs through the memories of soldiers of the 1965 war—ingenuity, courage and camaraderie that withstood an apparently technologically superior foe.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
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