{"id":185433,"date":"2022-05-19T20:27:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T14:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=185433"},"modified":"2022-05-19T20:27:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T14:57:34","slug":"delimitation-fallout-needs-no-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/delimitation-fallout-needs-no-political\/","title":{"rendered":"Delimitation fallout needs no political\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

News<\/span><\/b>: India\u2019s electoral democracy is going to observe the delimitation of the constituencies for the Lok Sabha. This will be based on the population figures returned by the next decennial Census post 2026.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Arrangements made in the Constitution of India<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Article 82 of the Constitution of India provided for a periodic, Census-linked re-arrangement of constituencies to make the representation in Parliament tenable.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

History of India as Bharat<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

India\u2019s foundation for the <\/span>Bharat<\/span><\/b> that is mentioned in Article 1 of our Constitution can be traced back in the history of India.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

North India has often been referred to as <\/span>Upper India<\/span><\/b>. North India always had the upper hand in the affairs of the nation, of being bigger, and more populous. The nation\u2019s capital has always been in the North. These things reinforced the perceived image of India\u2019s north as <\/span>India\u2019s political summit<\/span><\/b>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Indian National Congress (INC) always kept India\u2019s regions at <\/span>equal front<\/span><\/b> and <\/span>symmetry<\/span><\/b>. For example, It conducted its annual session in <\/span>South India<\/span><\/b> vis-\u00e0-vis at Bombay (1885), Madras (1887), Amaravati\/Amraoti (1897), Coconada (1923), Belgaum (1924), and Avadi,Madras (1955) among others.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>All-India Kisan Sabha,<\/span><\/b> the peasant wing of the <\/span>Communist Party of India <\/span><\/b>also conducted its sessions very pointedly in southern venues as much as in northern. For example, at Palasa (in 1940), and at Srikakulam.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What are\/may be the issues in India\u2019 electoral representation?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At present<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>543 Members of Parliaments (MPs)<\/span><\/b> represents a vastly increased population in the Lok Sabha. If there is a high number of people per constituency, then each voter yields a lower impact on <\/span>parliamentary representation.\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Issues in case of re-arrangement of constituencies post-2026<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The delimitation will give more MPs to the States\/UTs having greater population growth, and will give less MPs to the state\/UTs having low population growth.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For example, according to the projections made by the <\/span>Technical Group<\/span><\/b> formed by the <\/span>National Commission on Population for 2011-36<\/span><\/b>, the share of the states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan would increase in India\u2019s total population. Whereas, the share of the states of Tamil Nadu, undivided Andhra, Kerala and West Bengal will see decline in India\u2019s Population in 2026.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The delimitation will inevitably lead to a <\/span>reduced representation<\/span><\/b> for States that have managed to <\/span>stabilise<\/span><\/b> their populations, and to a higher representation for States that have not stabilised their populations.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the alternatives?<\/span><\/b>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

One, the government can go on for another freeze until all States have achieved population stabilisation.\u00a0 [Note: To solve this anomaly, <\/span>the 42nd Amendment of the Constitution<\/span><\/b> was enacted to cause delimitation freeze in 1976 and same was extended to <\/span>2026<\/span><\/b> through the <\/span>84th Amendment]<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Two, the demographic and statistical experts can devise a <\/span>mathematical mode<\/span><\/b>l along the lines of the \u2018<\/span>Cambridge Compromise\u2019<\/span><\/b> used for the apportionment of the seats of the European Parliament between the member-states. The formula needs to be customised for our needs.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Way Forward<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

India cannot afford a tension on the <\/span>north-south front<\/span><\/b>. Therefore, the<\/span> upperness syndrome<\/span><\/b> of the past should not come back in the guise of delimitation.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At present, the most important thing is that India needs to limit its population, not representation.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>The southern States or the population-stabilising States of India continue to enrich our legislative and parliamentary processes.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/span><\/b>: The post is based on an article \u201cDelimitation fallout needs no political forecasting<\/strong>\u201d published in the \u201cThe Hindu<\/strong>\u201d on 19<\/strong><\/span>th<\/strong> May 2022<\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News: India\u2019s electoral democracy is going to observe the delimitation of the constituencies for the Lok Sabha. This will be based on the population figures returned by the next decennial Census post 2026.\u00a0 Arrangements made in the Constitution of India\u00a0 Article 82 of the Constitution of India provided for a periodic, Census-linked re-arrangement of constituencies… Continue reading Delimitation fallout needs no political\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10498],"class_list":["post-185433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1699956911},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}