Delimitation to boost SC/ST, women MP seats without hurting South: BJP MP Laxman

BJP Rajya Sabha subordinate and nationalist OBC president K. Laxman connected Sunday said the Modi authorities planned to undertake delimitation of Parliamentary constituencies connected a ‘pro-rata’ ground up of the 2026 Census to guarantee that nary State, peculiarly successful the confederate region, was disadvantaged.

Pro-rata delimitation implies that States volition person further Lok Sabha seats successful proportionality to their existing spot successful Parliament, alternatively than purely based connected colonisation growth, helium said, addressing a property league astatine the State BJP office. He said the projected workout would heighten women’s practice owed to the one-third reservation, portion besides expanding the fig of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe members based connected constituencies reserved arsenic per the 2011 Census.