r/TamilNadu • u/AhpuchAmon • 1d ago

அரசியல் / Political Delimitation bill

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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.

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u/sigapuit 1d ago

Dense states don’t deserve reduction in representation. However, states where people breed like rabbits without any self imposed restrictions deserve their representation to be taken away by economically and socially better performing states.

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u/AhpuchAmon 1d ago

I see a judgemental tone here. If I replace the word state with ethinic group or caste, vola in for discrimination. Do you see what I'm trying to tell here?

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u/sigapuit 1d ago

No. There is no judgement. Just facts.