Delimitation is set to reshape India's political landscape, raising crucial questions about representation and fairness. With northern states pushing for more seats due to population growth and southern states fearing a loss for successfully controlling their populations, the issue has sparked a major political divide. Will this exercise ensure fair representation, or will it penalize states that implemented population control? Watch the full discussion to understand the implications of delimitation in India.
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00:00Delimitation, which literally means fixing the boundary or limits of something, is the
00:25latest political issue dividing opinions in the country.
00:30With a delimitation exercise to redraw parliamentary and state assembly constituencies scheduled
00:35to take place any time after the much-delayed population census is conducted, political
00:41parties are sharply divided, either in its favour or against it.
00:47For years, states in northern and eastern India have complained of under-representation
00:52in parliament despite having large populations.
00:57On the other hand, parties in the southern states fear that they could be penalised for
01:01successfully implementing population control measures.
01:07I can say that there are a few things which the delimitation is supposed to do through
01:13a delimitation commission, a body that does delimitation exercise in India.
01:19And one is that it has to recommend that what should be the optimum number of seats
01:27in the legislature at the federal level, at the state level, at the union territory level
01:34and the NCT level, that means the National Capital Territory of Delhi.
01:38That is the first thing it has to do.
01:44After the first delimitation exercise in 1952, based on the 1951 census, 494 Lok Sabha seats
01:53were allocated.
01:55The number of Lok Sabha seats increased to 522 in 1963 following the reorganisation of
02:02states in 1956.
02:06In 1973, the delimitation exercise based on the 1971 census raised the number of Lok
02:13Sabha seats to 543.
02:20The reason was that the national population projections were in 2000, they were pointing
02:31to the fact that in the next quarter of a century, the nation will reach a replacement
02:41growth rate, which means that if X number of people are born, then X number of people
02:48will be dying.
02:49That means there was a pointer that by 2026, the replacement growth rate in the population
02:58will probably stabilise the population of the country.
03:06The concern stemmed from the fact that states like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have witnessed
03:11higher population growth, while southern states like Tamil Nadu and Kerala have successfully
03:16controlled their fertility rates.
03:21So there is some sort of panic among the southern states and some northern states, smaller states,
03:28northern states, that if delimitation is to be done on the basis of existing or traditional
03:36constitutional basis, then the southern states may proportionally lose seats or they may
03:44not gain as compared to other northern states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh,
03:52West Bengal and so on and so forth.
03:59Some political parties such as the DMK in Tamil Nadu and the BRS in Telangana fear that
04:04a new delimitation exercise could lead to fewer parliamentary seats for their states.
04:10This they say would be unfair, as they have successfully implemented population control measures.
04:20We have achieved this through a successful family-building programme for the past 10 years
04:26through women, education and health initiatives.
04:32Because of the lack of public support, there is a need to reduce the number of MPs in Tamil Nadu.
04:40If the number of MPs is reduced, there is a need to reduce the number of MPs in Tamil Nadu
04:50to 8.
04:54There will no longer be 39 MPs in Tamil Nadu, there will only be 31 MPs.
05:01This is a time for all parties to fight for the delimitation of Tamil Nadu.
05:06Not just in Telangana, not just in Tamil Nadu, but in Kerala, Karnataka, and in the south,
05:14in Andhra Pradesh and all other states, there is a need to reduce the number of MPs.
05:21If all parties fight together, justice will be served to the southern states.
05:31Recently, Union Home Minister Amit Shah sought to allay these fears,
05:36saying that the delimitation exercise will not affect southern states.
05:40The Modi government has made it clear in the Lok Sabha that after the delimitation,
05:48according to the pro rata, not a single seat in the south will be reduced.
05:57The Modi government has made it clear that after the delimitation,
06:05according to the pro rata, not a single seat in the south will be reduced.
06:11And the majority of the seats will be given to the southern states.
06:17There is no need to have any doubts about this.
06:26However, some experts believe that if constituencies are redrawn solely based on
06:32population, northern states will gain seats, effectively penalising southern states.
06:41Whereas states like Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan will gain MPs.
06:45Now, the exact problem that we saw earlier as a hypothetical or a theoretical idea
06:52has come to, you know, has become reality, which is that the states that implemented
06:58population control successfully are going to be punished in terms of losing political
07:03representation, whereas the states which did not do that are going to gain.
07:07So it is sort of, you know, the Union government asked the states to do X,
07:12the states that did X correctly are now going to lose representation,
07:15and the states that did not do X are going to gain representation.
07:19And, you know, when a situation becomes this, of course, southern states are going to protest.