Home Minister L K Advani on Tuesday assured BJP MPs that the government proposed to bring a legislation in the current or next session of Parliament to set up a Delimitation Commission to draw up boundaries for Lok Sabha constituencies. Addressing the members of the BJP Parliamentary party at its weekly meeting chaired by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in New Delhi, the Home Minister said Law Minister Arun Jaitley was examining various aspects of this legislation, party spokesman V K Malhotra told reporters.
The members were informed that the exercise of delimitation of constituencies would be completed before the next Lok Sabha elections.
Bureau Report