North India Statesman
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News India Live, Digital Desk: These days, there is a heated issue in Indian politics which is not limited to electoral victory or defeat only, but is related to the strength of the country’s map and Parliament. The matter is ‘Delimitation’. This word has given sleepless nights to many leaders of South India including Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.
What is the full story? understand in simple language
Simply put, ‘delimitation’ means deciding how many Lok Sabha and Assembly seats there will be in a state according to the population of the country. According to law, the greater the population of a state, the more seats it has. But this very thing is troubling the states of South India.
Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah has expressed a very legitimate concern. He says that the states of South India (like Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu) have done very good work on family planning and controlling population in the last decades. Education increased there and people became aware. Now, if only ‘population’ is made the basis of seats, then states which have increased their population (especially some states in North India), will get more Lok Sabha seats as a reward. At the same time, the seats of those who contributed to the development of the country and controlled the population will be reduced.
It’s not just a matter of seats, it’s also a matter of power
Siddaramaiah’s fear is that if the representation (seats) of the southern states in the Parliament decreases, then the importance of their opinion in the decisions of the Central Government will also reduce. His words cannot be heard in the corridors of Delhi. In a way, this is being seen as ‘punishment for good work’. The taxes coming from South India contribute a lot to the development of the country, hence the leaders there believe that they should not be marginalized.
What is the way?
Political experts also believe that it would probably be unfair to use population alone as the yardstick. Will education, economic development and social reforms find any place in the seat distribution? This is a great question. This warning of Siddaramaiah is a signal to the Central Government and the Election Commission that in order to preserve the federal structure of the country, a middle path will have to be found so that no one’s rights are violated.
At present, this issue of delimitation is going to be the biggest hotbed of politics in the country in the coming times. Now it remains to be seen what solution the Center finds to this concern of the ‘South’.
