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Make Delhi Less Attractive: Nilakantan R.S. on Decentralisation as a Solution to the Delimitation Crisis

Published : Mar 24, 2025 17:05 IST - 12 MINS READ The topic of delimitation has turned into a South vs North debate, with most of the States in south India expected to lose seats in a demography-based delimitation exercise. The southern States strongly oppose any redrawing of Lok Sabha constituency boundaries solely on the basis of current population figures as it would not only reduce their political representation at the national level but also amount to penalising them for adhering to the national policy of population control. Nilakantan R.S., data scientist and author of the bestselling book South vs North: India’s Great Divide, suggests that extreme decentralisation could be a way out. If you did a calculation of the impact of every voter in the southern States versus the States in central and northern India, it was plus or minus 2 per cent. With the Union government enjoying less power, people both in Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh will worry less about the government in Delhi and more about the government in their State.

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