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

Patna, Apr 15 (UNI) 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 constituted, but only balancing on the basis of population was done while a number of seats were not changed, he added.
" Population of Bihar increased since the number of seats was fixed at 543 in Lok Sabha decades back, and several seats would have increased, had the stay on delimitation not been made in 1976 ", RLM leader said, adding that besides Bihar, other Hindi speaking states also suffered losses in the same way. It was distressing to note that Hindi-speaking states were still among the backward states of the country, he remarked.
Kushwaha came down heavily on Grand Alliance in Bihar, saying it was an alliance based on self-interest. Any alliance or understanding based on self interests, could not last long, he added.
RLM leader refused to make any comment on HAM patron and Union Minister Jeetan Ram Manjhi, announcing to contest 25 to 30 seats in the next Bihar assembly elections. He blamed media persons for prompting Manjhi to make such statements.
" A meeting of our party will be held from April 25 to 27 during which several issues will be discussed", Kushwaha said, adding that assembly elections in Bihar, slated for October-November this year, would also be discussed. NDA would fight unitedly under the leadership of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in the next Bihar assembly elections, he stressed.
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