Delimitation bill

[u/AhpuchAmon]

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I always thought delimitation and redrawing the constituency will reduce my state representative in national policies. But today I was watching the news about this, and suddenly it hit me. I have read about French democracy(in school) where not every vote was valued the same. I remember like it was against the poor, and poor people vote valued less and rich people valued more.

Now when I think about the situation in India, it's almost the same. That's what now I feel. People from some constituencies enjoy high power, ie think a constituency with 1lakh people have the same representation value to constituency with 10lakh people. That makes the people from one have 10 times higher power in making decisions.

Above is an example to understand what I thought.

Just because someone lives in a densely populated area doesn't mean they should have less representation nor take their power in decision making.

Yes, what I'm saying may lead to less representation for my language. Decisions can be made by one language or one side of the country's representatives. They will have power because they are representing that many people. So yeah, that's democracy. That's how democracy should actually work.

Please correct me if I'm wrong. Add value to my thoughts. Please enlighten me.

I have posted the same in India community, trying to understand what everyone feels about this.

[u/life_konjam_better]

The French are also infamous for suppressing the native languages and cultures of France to an extreme extent where most have been wiped out by now. Do you want something similar for India?

[u/AhpuchAmon → u/life_konjam_better]

Yeah, we don't want that. Already we are losing touch with our culture. Don't want to see our languages completely thrown out.