Shashi Tharoor writes: The Trojan Horse of delimitation, and fundamental questions about the design of our democracy

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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor criticized the defeated Lok Sabha bills, arguing the government attempted to embed a delimitation exercise within women's reservation legislation. He contended the bills would skew parliamentary arithmetic and harm federalism by penalizing states with successful population control. Tharoor advocated granting women 33% reservation immediately without boundary redrawing, rejecting what he termed a political Trojan Horse.

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