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| Doubts over timely implementation of delimitation process |
New Delhi, Aug. 19 (PTI): The exercise to delimit constituencies across the country has got caught in a political quagmire, raising doubts over whether the process will be completed before the next Lok Sabha polls in 2009.
While the RJD and JMM have openly opposed the exercise in Bihar and Jharkhand respectively for a variety of reasons, the talk in political circles is that there are many who have reservations to the move.
The RJD wants the process to be stopped, while the JMM in Jharkhand has expressed fears that seats reserved for Scheduled Tribes in Parliament and the state assembly would be obliterated.
This is because several leaders fear the loss of their original constituencies which they have nurtured for long.
In fact, the Delimitation Commission recently pleaded with the government to come out with a Presidential Order for implementing the readjustment in respect of 513 Lok Sabha and 3,726 assembly constituencies in 25 states, for which the process has been completed.
Senior BJP leader V K Malhotra said the government was required to call a meeting of all political parties to discuss the Commission's work. He alleged that the ruling Congress appeared reluctant to implement the Commission's recommendations.
"The constituencies as they stand now are carved out on the basis of the 1971 census. It is now 2007 and a change is required," he said.
http://www.hindu. com/thehindu/ holnus/001200708 191057.htm |
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