why is a state divide into separate constituencies for election to the legislative assembly
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Explanation:
Good question. The answer is simple— general elections are held for the entire country but state elections are held for a smaller geographical area.
So MPs usually serve a larger constituency than MLAs do. The state can afford to have smaller segments so that the focus on these areas is more detailed. After all it's the states that are primarily responsible for their development while the Central government takes care of larger national issues much as external security, foreign affairs, etc.
Therefore if states use the same number of constituencies for general elections as they do for state elections the MPs thus elected will be impossible to accommodate in the Indian parliament. A smaller number of MPs from a particular state are as capable of representing that state in Parliament as the MLAs put together.
Therefore, central and state constituencies are not the same.
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However, the Communal Award was supported by many among the minority communities, most notably the leader of the Scheduled Castes, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. According to Ambedkar, Gandhi was ready to award separate electorates to Muslims and Sikhs.