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Delimitation Commission to complete its job by Oct. next year
Chennai, June 18: The delimitation of all the 543 Lok Sabha constituencies and 4000 odd assembly constituencies in the country would be completed by October next year and this meant that the Lok Sabha polls, scheduled for next year, would be held only on the basis of delimitation exercise undertaken in 1976.
Chennai, June 18: The delimitation of all the 543 Lok Sabha constituencies and 4000 odd assembly constituencies in the country would be completed by October next year and this meant that the Lok Sabha polls, scheduled for next year, would be held only on the basis of delimitation exercise undertaken in 1976.
Disclosing this at a press conference here after a
two-day sitting in Chennai, the chairman of the Delimitation
Commission, Justice Kuldip Singh, said delimitation could be
done only on the basis of population figures and not on the
basis of number of voters.
“We go only by the constitutional provisions,” he said adding that amendments to constitution would be necessary if the commission had to go by voters' figures.
“Our work will be only to cut here and paste there. The delimitation will not mean any increase in the number of Lok Sabha or assembly constituencies as their number has been frozen. As far as reserved constituencies are concerned, there may an increase or decrease in the country,” Singh said adding the commission's job would only be to suitably alter the geographical contours of a constituency.
Bureau Report
“We go only by the constitutional provisions,” he said adding that amendments to constitution would be necessary if the commission had to go by voters' figures.
“Our work will be only to cut here and paste there. The delimitation will not mean any increase in the number of Lok Sabha or assembly constituencies as their number has been frozen. As far as reserved constituencies are concerned, there may an increase or decrease in the country,” Singh said adding the commission's job would only be to suitably alter the geographical contours of a constituency.
Bureau Report