Why delimitation has intensified the debate on North-South divide
1 year, 2 months ago

Why delimitation has intensified the debate on North-South divide

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The apprehensions of political parties in southern India that the region may lose out both on Lok Sabha and legislative assembly seats in the next delimitation exercise, due only after the delayed decadal census now expected to be completed by 2026, are not entirely misplaced. So, whenever the delimitation exercise is initiated after the next census, tweaks are imperative based on additional factors beyond population to ensure that the southern states do not lose out on the number of seats. Nevertheless, worry lurks among southern states like Tamil Nadu and Kerala—both known for good implementation of family planning programmes—of losing many parliamentary constituencies in the delimitation exercise. Before the Lok Sabha polls in 2019, the BJP had distributed a paper that claimed that the delimitation exercise scheduled after 2026 may see North India gain more than 32 seats at the expense of the southern states, which may end up with 24 fewer seats.

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