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South Indian of the male species here. My two cents:

👉We witnessed on one side, the government clubbing women reservation (already a passed bill) with delimitation exercise, which when left to the devices of the government is nothing but gerrymandering. Here's the problem with what the government is doing:

🅰️The procedural problem: the Delimitation exercise would've been carried out on the 2011 census. The government defends it by giving a verbal assurance of 50 percent equal proportional increase to all states. Here's the problem, verbal assurances on the floor on bills are hollow as there's nothing to keep the government in check. One might argue that the parliamentary committee on government assurances is a safeguard; sorry it is not. Also, one needs to remember that this 50 percent promise need not be followed by the Delimitation commission and they have constitutional protection against judicial review (the court has stated that they will intervene in a narrow scenario only)

Also, the 50 percent promise was given for the reason that the south will not loose out. As one who followed the session to near completion, I observed that DMK MP Kanimozhi clearly lifted the fog- the collective states or UP, Bihar, MP,Haryana,Rajasthan, Gujarat, Jharkhand and Chattisgarh and a few more northern states are enough to near two thirds seats majority needed to amend the constitution. This is after the 50 percent proportional increase. What should the south do then? Given that Karnataka is a coin's flip between INC and BJP, add them to the pile.

🅱️ Substance problem The Government in their debates prides itself on women empowerment. The opposition parties also took their chance to shine a light on their achievements. In this world, perfection and ideals don't appear in all aspects, especially in the matter of women empowerment. So ideally women reservation should never exist as a compulsion to push parties to select women leaders: it should come from within, 50 percent of nominations to an election should be given to women;that ends the conundrum. But in our reality, women aren't given an equal voice : systemically we(Bharat) and many in the world lack a mindset of equality of sexes. So reservation is a practical compromise to achieve a level of fairness .

Now, women reservation should be (by common sense of a two sexes world we live in) 50 percent. To this, the common rebuttal is "Oh society will be up in arms, society hasn't adjusted to such a drastic change in political system". We elect governments to bring positive change in our lives. So to say society isn't ready is a veil to hide their inability to swallow that hard truth that women are 50 percent in voice in this country .

Leaving this aside, the government wants to bring one third reservation for women.Ok Good. The bill was passed in 2023: even then they linked it to delimitation and census of 2026 onwards, further proof that the ruling government didn't want it in 2024 elections . Now all the go…

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