Delimitation to Retain States’ Ratio of Strength in Lok Sabha: RSS

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RSS National Executive Meeting Begins in Bengaluru

TRH News Desk

Bengaluru, March 21: The Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh (RSS) on Friday said that the states will retain the ratio of strength as is today in the Lok Sabha after the delimitation. The three-day national executive meeting of the RSS began in Bengaluru on Friday.

Mukunda CR, the joint general secretary of the RSS, on Friday said: “Union Minister for Home Affairs Amit Shah has already clarified the issue. He has said that the current ratio of the strength of the states in the Lok Sabha will be retained.”

The RSS functionary referred to the statements made by Shah during his visit to Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu recently. “We have also read media reports on Shah’s comments on delimitation. The states need not worry. The current strength per ratio will be maintained after the delimitation,” said Mukunda.

Shah was quoted in media reports during his Coimbatore visit saying that no state will lose the number of Lok Sabha seats. “Whenever the strength of the Lok Sabha is expanded, the current ratio of the states will remain the same, that total 545 divided by current number of seats from a state,” added Mukunda.

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Remarks of the RSS functionary are in variance to claims made by the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Supriyo Bhattacharya who recently quoted from a “draft delimitation report on the basis of the 2001 Census”. Supriyo claimed that “10 states will get almost 77 per cent of the Lok Sabha seats after delimitation”.

Bhattacharya quoted draft delimitation report, claiming that while number of the Lok Sabha seats from Jharkhand will increase from the current 14 to 24 the reserved seats will remain five only.

Former Chief Minister of Odisha Navin Patnaik is taking part in a meeting called by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on the issue of delimitation. Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren will also attend the meeting.

The DMK MPs yesterday held T-shirt protests in the Lok Sabha against delimitation. The Census 2021 is not yet commenced. But the freeze on delimitation, first brought out in 1976 and extended again 2001 for 25 years, is ending next year.

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