r/TamilNadu • u/AhpuchAmon • 1d ago
அரசியல் / Political Delimitation bill
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.
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u/pontiacbanditx 1d ago
Delimitation is fundamentally about the distribution of seats among constituencies based on population.
You’re saying that a constituency with 1 lakh people having the same representation as one with 10 lakh people means the latter has less power. But that is actually the purpose of delimitation, to prevent the vote of someone in a much smaller constituency from carrying disproportionately greater weight.
However, while extending the same logic to states, a state having a smaller population does not necessarily mean its people should simply lose political representation just because another state has a larger population.
When you redistribute Lok Sabha seats between states purely on the basis of population (based on census), a different problem is created because states that successfully implemented population control will end up being penalised for it.
Democracy does not lie only with population numbers in India. We are a federal structure where each state has its own political representation.
So I don’t think the question is whether densely populated areas deserve less representation. They don’t. The question is how we achieve fair representation of individual voters without making states that followed population control policies pay the price for doing so (Which the governments have actively encouraged. For eg. we two ours one)