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ECP to hold Punjab local government elections in December 2025
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) decided to hold Punjab's long-delayed local government elections in the last week of December 2025. According to Dawn, the delimitation process will begin immediately and conclude within two months after the Punjab government failed to respond to ear
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Telangana Assembly passes resolution seeking transparent delimitation proc
Updated : 12 months ago IST
The Telangana Legislative Assembly passed a resolution expressing deep concern over the planned delimitation exercise, calling for transparency and consultations with all stakeholders. The resolution emphasized that states with effective population control should not be penalized and urged t
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"Delimitation puts Southern states' future at risk": BRS working president
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Addressing the Delimitation conference organised by southern state leaders and chief ministers in Chennai, KT Rama Rao (KTR), the working President of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), voiced serious concerns on Saturday over the potential fallout of the ongoing delimitation process in so
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"Southern states should not be penalized for population policy success": T
Updated : 1 year ago IST
"We strongly oppose the current form of the delimitation process. We are the states that have successfully implemented the Population Policy of 1976, which has led to a significant reduction in our population. For this, we should not be punished. This is nothing but a penalty for the success
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"Thankful for HM's assurance...": Jagan Reddy's 'placatory' letter to PM M
Updated : 1 year ago IST
"Sir, I draw your attention to the potential for significant erosion of Southern State's participation in National policy making and legislative process if the delimitation process is conducted on the basis of the States' population as it stands today. While I am thankful for the Hon'ble
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"Important meeting to ensure democratic representation": Naveen Patnaik ur
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Former Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik stresses that population-based delimitation would be unfair to states with successful population control measures and calls for a national discussion on the issue.
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Delimitation process driven by "narrow political interests": Kerala CM Pin
Updated : 1 year ago IST
The Kerala Chief Minister further stated that if the delimitation is carried out purely on the basis of population, then Kerala and other southern states will suffer from this.
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Congress leader Vishwanathan calls delimitation unjust, says it will reduc
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Congress leader Vishwanathan on Friday alleged that the delimitation process will result in the reduction of Parliament seats in the southern States.
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Central govt must ensure "coordination of opinions": Pinarayi Vijayan amid
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Suggesting that the delimitation process must not meddle with the number of parliamentary seats, he said that states, which have implemented population control measures, shouldn't be punished since it would be "unfair".
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Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge opposes delimitation and NEP, accuses ce
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge expresses opposition to the delimitation process, NEP, and UGC guidelines. He claims the central government is using southern states to fill northern states' coffers for political reasons, diminishing southern states' representation.
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Going to raise delimitation issue, impact on southern states in Parliament
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Congress MP K Suresh plans to raise concerns over the delimitation process, which he says will impact southern states like Tamil Nadu, during the ongoing Parliament budget session. He highlights the lack of discussions with stakeholders.
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MK Stalin writes to other CMs, asks them to join committee on Delimitation
Updated : 1 year ago IST
In the letter Stalin pointed out that the previous delimitation exercises were conducted in 1952, 1963, and 1973, but were frozen by the 42nd Amendment in 1976 until the first census after 2000. The freeze was extended in 2002 until the census after 2026. However, with the 2021 Census del
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