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South India is becoming the local Dubai for North India.
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It will be interesting if they get around to apportioning Lok Sabha seats by population as recommended by Constitution. Last time was based on 1971 census. Will certainly help ruling party as it will add +30 seats in North. Anyway lot of interesting points in that article
MC1 my point was slightly different - you have 13 odd states deciding the outcome of the election irrespective of what rest of the country wants/needs, not unlike India where a few states decide the outcome of the election ( though the conditions for how these states get power is different). Eg Alaska is small state but is more or less irrelevant when it comes to presidential elections.
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That is a very interesting take!
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Baby factory? Seriously? Sometimes the choice of words tells the bias of the media group.
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It is a direct quote from someone who actually knows what he is talking about. How is it bias of WSJ? And what in your mind is WSJ’s bias here? Quote is from Nicholas Eberstadt, an expert on global demographics at the American Enterprise Institute,
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This is not as simple . from historic , medieval times population has peaked in areas that provides easy water & fertile land to sustain life. gangetic plain had it all & was always densely populated. This is not a new phenomenon. The FEP introduced by Central government post independence systematically destroyed states of Bihar & Bengal while significantly promoting Deccan, Maharashtra - Gujtat . something which mamta Banerjee has always raised. The landlocked states in any country will always lag severly from industrial perspective as it is too costly to transport products via ports. This is the same reason why mid west landlocked states in US are way more poor than east coast or west coast. Indian landlocked states are still better as they at least provide food grains & agricultural to feed most of the country . gangetic plain of up, bihar & bengal alone produces 70% of grains for the whole country . It is easy to nit pick convenience . Do some research on FEP ( freight equalization policy) u will get ur answers.
It’s been 28 years since FEP came to an end. That’s a pretty long time to get the basics right (law and order, education, gender disparity, social indicators etc.) but governments in most of the BIMARU states did not do much to bridge the gap vis-a-vis South, West (& the northeast which by the way has very little industry to speak of but country leading stats). There are states in this list with metrics that are worse off than sub-Saharan Africa and are the reason why our per-capita has started to trail Bangladesh (even though it might be somewhat transitory). Don’t intend to be vitriolic but governments that win mandates just by appealing to the bases here haven’t done much to advance priorities that are in the broader national interest (incl. the BJP in the case of the farm laws which should be implemented in some form or the other)
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Should voting divide be by pure population or by voting age population?