On June 9, Narendra Modi was sworn in as India’s prime minister for the third consecutive term. From demonetizing 86 percent of the country’s cash overnight in his declared war against black money and criminalizing the Islamic divorce system of triple talaq to stripping India’s Jammu and Kashmir state of special constitutional status and statehood – all these major decisions …
Most democracies around the world undergo a delimitation process by which electoral boundaries of constituencies are redrawn to ensure equal population across seats. However, after the 1972 delimitation exercise, the Constitution Act of 1976 froze the number of parliamentary and Assembly seats in each state till the 2001 Census. List of newly-created and dissolved constituencies post delimitation After the implementation …