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Indian voters person shown singular flexibility, S.Y. Quraishi, erstwhile Chief Election Commissioner, said present connected Friday.
While delivering the 18th V. Sankar Aiyar Memorial Lecture connected “Census 2027: Demography and Delimitation”, organised by the Southern India Regional Council (SIRC) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), helium said, Indian voters separate betwixt Lok Sabha and Assembly polls held simultaneously. “They ballot otherwise successful nationalist and State elections. They person adapted to EVMs and VVPATs,” helium said.
He noted that electoral systems are not method footnotes; they signifier the quality of a democracy.
“We are approaching a unsocial law moment. Census 2027 volition number astir 1.45 billion. Think astir that scale. This census carries bonzer value due to the fact that of what depends connected it,” helium said. Mr. Quraishi added that this census assumes peculiar value arsenic it tin unfastened aged wounds of demographic changes.
Manuraj Shunmugasundaram, advocate, Madras High Court said, delimitation cannot beryllium conscionable looked astatine with rigidity, but with law humility and governmental intelligence. “Northern States person grown rapidly successful population. Southern States person not due to the fact that they person made sustained investments successful health, education, and much importantly, women empowerment. So, a purely population-based delimitation would people trim the power the Southern States have,” helium said.
Yamini Aiyar, girl of erstwhile Union Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar and granddaughter of V. Sankar Aiyar, and Revathi S. Raghunathan, chairperson, SIRC of ICAI, besides spoke astatine the event.
