Foreseeing a rise in the number of Lok Sabha seats in north, west, and central India, and drop in their number in south, east and north-east, if the next delimitation exercise is carried out on the basis of population, political commentator Sandeep Shastri strongly advocated the need for retaining the existing proportion of Lok Sabha seats allotted to each State.
A discussion on “Representation in Parliament” as part of the two-day national conference on Delimitation: Inter-State Asymmetry and its implications organised by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Research and Extension Centre, University of Mysore.
Participating in the discussion Prof. Shastri, director of academics, Nitte Education Trust, said percentage of Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Haryana will go up while the percentage of seats in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Kerala and Telangana will come down if the population figures as per the 2021 census is taken into account.
