Number of seats in Lok Sabha from Bihar would have increased, had delimitation not been stayed: Kushwaha

Patna, April 15 -- President of Rastriya Lok Morcha (RLM) Upendra Kushwaha on Tuesday said several Lok Sabha seats from Bihar would have increased if delimitation had not been stayed through an Act enforced in 1976 during the emergency era.

Kushwaha told media persons here that there was a constitutional provision to carry out a delimitation exercise after the census, so that the number of seats in Lok Sabha and state assemblies could be increased on the basis of an increase in population. In 1976, an Act was enforced during the emergency era, which stayed the delimitation and increase in the number of seats in Lok Sabha and state assemblies for the next 25 years, he pointed out. In the year 2001, the delimitation commission was constitute...