BRS on BJP: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief and Telangana minister KT Rama Rao on Tuesday (Could 30) stated that it could be a ‘gross injustice’ to the southern states if Lok Sabha seats are delimited on the idea of inhabitants after 2026. ‘ Occur. The BRS chief’s remarks got here within the wake of experiences that if voted to energy within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP-led authorities would provoke the method of delimitation of parliamentary constituencies.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the brand new Parliament Home on Sunday (Could 28). Its Lok Sabha has 3 times the variety of seats, with sufficient house for 888 members. The brand new Rajya Sabha has a seating capability of 384 members. On this event, PM Modi had stated that there was a problem concerning the seating space within the outdated Parliament Home and within the coming time the variety of seats will improve and the variety of MPs will improve. In such a state of affairs, speculations are being made that there could also be delimitation of Lok Sabha seats.
As per the 84th modification of the structure, no change might be made within the boundaries of the constituencies after the primary census in 2026 or not less than until 2031. The present Lok Sabha seats are based mostly on the 1971 census. At current there are 543 seats within the decrease home of the Parliament.
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Rama Rao stated in a press launch that the southern states adopted the insurance policies of the Heart and managed the inhabitants with a progressive mindset. If there’s a population-based delimitation, it could be a ‘gross injustice’ to these states. He expressed apprehension that on account of delimitation the southern states could get much less Lok Sabha seats and however the states particularly within the northern area could profit from the rise in Lok Sabha seats.
The BRS chief claimed that this might profit the northern states which have failed to manage inhabitants regardless of appeals from the central authorities. Rao alleged that the population-dominated states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Telangana had been being severely punished at the moment for his or her progressive insurance policies.
In line with him, the southern states are main not solely in inhabitants management but additionally in every kind of human improvement indices. Rama Rao claimed that the southern states with solely 18 per cent inhabitants contribute 35 per cent to the Gross Home Product (GDP) and are contributing rather a lot to the nationwide financial improvement and the nation as a complete. He appealed to the leaders and folks of the southern states to transcend politics and lift their voice towards the ‘injustice’.
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