Is the Lack of Clarity About Delimitation Deliberate and Designed to Be Deceptive?

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Does a 50% proportionate increase make the bills more acceptable to the opposition? Or do they still have serious reservations?

Karan Thapar

Does a 50% proportionate increase make the bills more acceptable to the opposition? Or do they still have serious reservations?

There is confusion, concern and lack of clarity about the basis on which the government proposes to increase the number of seats in the Lok Sabha and the state assemblies. Will it be on the basis of the 2011 census, which is what the bills themselves suggest, or will it be a 50% proportionate increase in the Lok Sabha and all the state assemblies, which is what unnamed spokespersons have assured yesterday’s newspapers?

And does a 50% proportionate increase make the bills more acceptable to the opposition? Or do they still have serious reservations?

Those are the issues that Minister for Information Technology and Digital Services of the Tamil Nadu government, P. Thiaga Rajan, discusses with Karan Thapar.

This article went live on April seventeenth, two thousand twenty six, at fifty-five minutes past three in the afternoon.

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