India plans more seats for women in parliament, links it to ‘delimitation’

The ruling BJP ties the landmark women's reservation law to a politically sensitive redrawing of electoral maps, delaying its immediate effect. | Contesto: cronaca

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• India plans more seats for women in parliament, links it to ‘delimitation’

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The Indian government has formally linked the implementation of a historic law reserving one-third of parliamentary seats for women to the politically fraught process of redrawing the country's electoral constituencies, a move that effectively postpones the quota's immediate application. The announcement, made by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), clarifies that the Women's Reservation Act, passed last year, will only come into force after a nationwide delimitation exercise is completed. This process, which involves revising the boundaries and number of legislative seats based on updated population data, has no set timeline and is a subject of intense debate across the political spectrum. The linkage introduces a significant delay to a reform celebrated as a major step toward gender parity in the world's largest democracy. The law itself mandates that 33 percent of seats in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament, and state legislative assemblies be reserved for women. Its passage was hailed as a landmark achievement after decades of failed attempts. However, by conditioning its enforcement on delimitation, the government has anchored the women's quota to one of India's most complex and contentious constitutional procedures, ensuring the policy remains in limbo for the foreseeable future. The delimitation exercise is inherently controversial because it is based on population figures from the most recent census, which for India was conducted in 2011. A new census, delayed since 2021, is a prerequisite. Any redrawing of constituencies based on population shifts over the past decade would likely increase the number of seats for states in India's more populous north, potentially reducing the political weight of southern states, which have achieved greater success in controlling population growth. This north-south dynamic makes delimitation a political minefield, with southern states vehemently opposing any loss of representation. Critics argue that by tying the two issues together, the government has created a procedural hurdle that defers substantive progress on women's representation. They contend that the women's reservation could be implemented...

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