The petitioner have challenged recent proposals of the ECI readjusting the extent of 126 Assembly and 14 Lok Sabha Constituencies in Assam by a draft order issued on June 20.
The petitioners claimed that the methodology adopted by the ECI for this exercise took different average assembly sizes and different districts. It is their argument that population density or populous-ness have no role to play in the process of delimitation.
The petition further stated that even though the Constitution of India envisages an exercise whereby constituencies are to be readjusted so as to ensure that all constituencies are comprised of an almost equal population, the ECI, by relying on 2001 census figures, has created three categories of districts and has taken different yardstick for the three categories.
This results in possible deviation of up to 33% between the population of the largest and the smallest constituency, the petitioners contended.
Source: Barandbench
