Re: 1 man 1 vote

["Cprakash" <Cprakash@goplay.com>]

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One way to get out of this quagmire
1 - man , 1-vote Vs Population control
is to transfer more financial powers to the states. this will ensure
that states which have lost out on legislative powers at the centre,
will have a chance to determine their own destiny.
venugopal <gvvs@nird.ap.nic.in> wrote on Tuesday September 12, 2000
at  1:33am:
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>I dont think anything is wrong with that. I think that is because of
>giving proper shape to the aspirations of people in Schedule VI
Areas.
>In my view it is a fit thing to recognise the aspirations of local
>people in small States who are mostly tribals, rather than
antagonizing
>or attempting to drive them away from the national mainstream. To
give
>more representation to people in Meghalaya in relative terms is any
day
>a better thing to do. I dont think any question of parity should
arise
>here because any way big States have been producing powerful
political
>leaders in view of relative prosperity of the region. But another
>question is : what do you do with reference to States like Tamil Nadu
>which have done well in family planning and because of conscious
>efforts, the population has been contained?  If a fresh delimitation
is
>conducted now on the basis of  "1 person (not man) 1 vote", those
States
>
>which have not done well in family planning will deserve more MPs
than
>States like Tamil Nadu. That is the reason I feel it is justified to
>have freeze on the delimitations.
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