Question

our constitution requires that each contituency should have a roughly equal population living within it .justify.​

Answer 1

Manipur has two parliamentary seats in the Lok Sabha, out of which the Outer Manipur constituency is reserved for a tribal candidate. However, in 1954, the Delimitation Commission of India clubbed the electorates of the erstwhile Thoubal subdivision (excluding Bishenpur tehsil) with the Outer Manipur constituency to "balance" the number of voters in the two constituencies, thereby increasing the number of non-tribal voters in Outer Manipur. This arrangement denies non-tribal people the right to contest elections and makes ST candidates dependent on non-tribal votes for electoral success.

Issues related to the delimitation of territorial constituencies are fraught and complex. Most recently, this was exemplified in Jammu and Kashmir, where rumours of a fresh delimitation exercise created a political storm (Sandhu 2019). In Manipur too, there is one peculiar issue related to delimitation that surfaces during every parliamentary election, and the 2019 parliamentary election was no exception (Imphal Free Press 2019). In Manipur, the concern is not only about the need to balance the relationship between the sizes of population and territorial constituencies. It is also about the violation of the right to contest in parliamentary elections for a large group of people.

Manipur has two parliamentary seats in the Lok Sabha. While the Inner Manipur constituency is an unreserved seat covering the non-tribal plains people, the Outer Manipur constituency is reserved for the Scheduled Tribes (STs). However, since India’s first election in 1951–52 and for the purpose of Lok Sabha elections, the electorates of the erstwhile Thoubal subdivision (excluding Bishenpur tehsil) in the Manipur plains were clubbed with the Outer Manipur constituency. At that time, the Inner Manipur parliamentary constituency consisted of what was then Sadar subdivision (excluding the area which formerly constituted the Mao subdivision), and Bishenpur tehsil of the Thoubal subdivision. The Outer Manipur constituency consists of the tribal areas of Jiribam, Ukhrul, Churachandpur, and Tamenglong subdivisions, and the area which formerly constituted the Mao subdivision, along with the non-tribal areas in the Thoubal subdivision (excluding Bishenpur tehsil) (Subramanian 1954b: 390).

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