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Transcript
00:00 the election commission has rejected your report and said that your comment on the initial restrictions is completely wrong in relation to the law.
00:10 According to Article 51, 266 seats of the National Assembly have been distributed among the provinces on the basis of population and the quota of the provinces has been removed keeping in mind the population of the provinces. What would you say?
00:22 The quota of the provinces is removed on the basis of the population of the provinces. This is correct.
00:35 But our calculation is that the variation of population should not be more than 10% in the assembly of the Elections Act.
00:56 The clarification issue that the Election Commission has issued today, they have said that the quota that has been removed on the basis of the district, the district population has not been removed by dividing it.
01:11 We are saying that this should be seen on the whole assembly and according to that, 180 such districts are formed. But according to the number of the Election Commission, 64 such districts are there, in which this is more than 10%.
01:25 And the Election Commission has also said in today's press release that the reasons for this have been documented. We think that this issue has been acknowledged at this time.
01:41 The Parliament had recently passed a law that it was no longer necessary for the Election Commission to respect the limits of the district and for the equality of the district, it can go beyond the limits of the district.
01:56 That is, some of the limits of two districts can be reduced by adding them. So, the Election Commission has not used it very liberally. But still, according to the Election Commission's own press release, 64 such districts are there where this issue exists.
02:13 And this is a big issue. And it may not be solved.
02:40 The Election Commission has said that during the reduction of the district, many other principles, including administrative units, are included. And the reductions in the district will be addressed on the basis of appropriate reasons.
02:55 But the rule says that you should take out the quota of the district and do it according to that share. The Election Commission has done the same. But the provision added in the law in August, in which the Parliament has said that it is no longer necessary for the Election Commission to respect the limits of the district.
03:16 We had also requested before that the Election Commission should update the rules in light of that legislative amendment so that this time many districts would be formed in which two districts would come, but the equality would remain intact.
03:33 Now, the situation is that a district with a population of 5.5 lakhs and 6 lakhs has a seat in the National Assembly, and a district with a population of 13 lakhs and 13.5 lakhs has a seat in the National Assembly.
03:45 So, this difference would have ended if the delimitation committees of the Election Commission had not used the legislative authority that they had received in August. And the delimitation committees of the Election Commission have sticked to the same old rule, under which they take out the share of the district and ensure that there is no shortage in the district.
04:12 So, we believe that the spirit of the law is that it should never be in the seats of an Assembly, nor should it be in the seats of a district.

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