There is a proposal from the BJP camp that they would resort to a proportion-based increase in the number of Lok Sabha seats ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses concerns over delimitation timing and economic criteria for tax devolution in ...

Delimitation has been a serious and permanent concern in the South for decades. The southern states have been complaining ...

However, the distribution of new Lok Sabha seats will be according to the population of each state. It is here that Stalin fears that the number of seats for Tamil Nadu, and other southern states ...

To be sure, calculations show that if the number of Lok Sabha seats are increased proportional to the population of states, the more populous but poorer northern states will see their relative ...

The Telangana Legislative Assembly has expressed serious concerns over the Centre’s approach to the delimitation of Lok Sabha ...

Potential delimitation of Lok Sabha constituencies could shift power from non-BJP parties to BJP, impacting national politics ...

So, it was a State-wise electoral understanding for the Lok Sabha polls and it yielded good results. The BJP lost its majority and came down to 240 seats. So, the perspective or vision of the ...

with southern state leaders opposing the redistribution of Lok Sabha seats. Home Minister Amit Shah assured no reduction, only proportional seat increases for these states. Gaur Gopal Das In Aap ...

today demanded that the population reference be frozen as per the 1971 Census and that additional Lok Sabha seats be allocated based on the national population growth rate across all states.

If Lok Sabha expands to 848 seats, delimitation based on proportional increase could grant TN an additional 22 seats, he said. “If population becomes the sole criterion, the state might gain ...