‘Unconstitutional’: Opposition says delimitation exercise must not weaken voice of southern states
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Opposition leaders on Tuesday criticised the three bills that the Union government has proposed on the delimitation of Lok Sabha seats, describing them as unconstitutional and adding that the voice of the southern states in Parliament should not weaken due to the exercise.
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The process of fixing the boundaries of electoral constituencies is called delimitation.
The remarks from the Opposition leaders come ahead of a special sitting of Parliament, which will begin on Thursday. At the session, the Union government will introduce three bills on the delimitation of constituencies for early implementation of women’s reservation in Parliament and state Assemblies.
The bills will increase the strength of the Lok Sabha to 850 from 543. Of these, 815 seats will be from the states and 35 from the Union Territories.
In a statement on social media, Congress MP KC Venugopal said that the bills were “extremely ill-timed” and posed serious questions that the Narendra Modi government must answer.
“Under the garb of bringing forward women’s reservations, the BJP [Bharatiya Janata Party] is looking to bulldoze a deeply flawed, unconstitutional and anti-federal delimitation exercise,” Venugopal said. “What was the tearing hurry to introduce this with such little notice?”
Noting that two major states are going into elections, the Alappuzha MP said that holding a “special session for this shows the true...