Delimitation Subject: Polity Context: Recently DMK member Kanimozhi NVN Somu while speaking during the discussion on the supplementary demand for grants for 2022-23 said that delimitation of Lok Sabha seats and devolution of funds to states on the basis of population is unfair to southern states, which have implemented family planning programmes better […]

    Delimitation Subject – Polity Context – The Election Commission’s (EC) former legal eagle, SK Mendiratta, has red-flagged the Union government’s order setting up a Delimitation Commission for Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Assam and Nagaland, calling it “unconstitutional” and “illegal”. Concept – Delimitation is the act of redrawing boundaries of Lok Sabha and Assembly seats to represent […]

Subject: Polity Context: A former legal advisor to the Election Commission (EC) has red-flagged the Centre’s order to set up a Delimitation Commission for Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Assam and Nagaland and called it “unconstitutional” and “illegal”. Reasons In the last delimitation exercise, completed in 2008, Arunachal, Manipur, Assam, Nagaland were kept out due to apprehensions over use […]