Delimitation of Lok Sabha on population basis: Unfair for Southern States?

In recent times, India has been going through some groundbreaking changes and one such change is going to be the delimitation process. There are numerous systems placed for this process and one such system is considering the state’s population for Lok Sabha seats i.e., the number of Members of Parliament (MPs) from a particular state.

We have 545 MPs (533 elected and 12 nominated) that are based on the population census of 1971. After the new parliament’s inauguration earlier this year, the nation is all set to delimitate seats as per the grown population since 1971. But is it going to be unfair to the Southern States?

The Southern States have done a remarkable job in controlling their population through socio-economic measures whereas the Northern states are still figuring out how to stop the population bomb. If the delimitation happens, the Southern States will lose approximately 25 MP seats thanks to their tremendous job at controlling their state’s population.

Furthermore, the revenue shared by the Union government to all the states is also affected by the population of a particular state i.e., if the population is more, the part in revenue sharing would be more as well. This is wrong on so many levels. These practices need to be stopped and new measures have to be found.

The delimitation body should take this point into consideration and reward these states rather than punish them by reducing the seats. A position has to be reached by all states to firmly curb overpopulation per constituency and then only, delimitation should take place.

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