Electoral Map of India About To Change-Constituencies To Be Restructured

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President Pratibha Patil is set to issue the presidential order for redrawing boundaries and reclassifying the reserved category status of 499 parliamentary and 3,645 assembly constituencies in 24 states.

The existing constituencies were drawn up on the basis of the 1971 census. Subsequent changes in population densities created imbalances leading to inequalities of population density in different constituencies.

The constituency maps will be valid through 2026. The delimitation exercise based on the 2001 census. The order aims to redraw constituencies of a state in a way that the population of one is almost the same as the other:

The cabinet decided to recommend notification of the report of the Delimitation Commission headed by Justice Kuldip Singh.

The presidential order is likely to come in the second week of March after the poll process in Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland is completed.

Since the Election Commission would need about four months to change electoral rolls so as to match the new political map, there is a possibility that assembly elections in Karnataka which are slated for May, might be deferred and get clubbed with elections in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.

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