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The Delimitation Dilemma—What Southern politicians should be bargaining for
Instead of fighting the inevitable population shift, southern leaders should seek to integrate migrants and preserve their local influence.
A political fight is brewing over the Modi government’s move to raise the Lok Sabha’s strength to 850 from the current 550 (actual strength: 543) in order to give space for women’s reservation in parliament and state assemblies.
There are two problems with this rushed decision, though directionally it is correct. I have always argued that trying to accommodate a 33 percent women’s quota in the existing 543 seats would be too unsettling, since these seats would also be rotated in different elections. It means no MP can expect to contest the same constituency he has nurtured after one or two elections – as it happens in the case of seats reserved for SCs and STs.
The two things wrong with this initiative, which I broadly support, are, one, the unnecessary rush in the middle of a major set of assembly elections. And, two, not giving people with real objections to state their case in an open forum and argue for a compromise that respects two principles: making most constituency sizes more or less equal so that each vote has the same value, and two, not destabilising the........