New Delhi, Dec 23: Lok Janshankati Party leader Ram Vilas Paswan and RPI leader Ramdas Athwale today staged dharna near the B R Ambedkar Statue in Parliament House, demanding immediate taking up of delimitation of constituencies. Paswan, in a letter to Speaker Manohar Joshi, sought his intervention requesting him to direct the NDA government to sort out the issue with the election commission and delimitation commission.

"This effort, on your part, will unequivocally go a long way in protecting the interest of SC/ST community," the letter said.

The delimitation commission has informed that due to unprecedented delay in publication of the figures of the census 2001 the work of the delimitation was virtually at a standstill, it said.
Bureau Report