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Ep 336: Shruti Rajagopalan Dives Into Delimitation

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The History of the Rajasapa in India

The Rajasapa in India is also roughly based not as precisely as the Lok Sabha but roughly based on population. Every state is allotted a number of seats in the Rajasapa and you know if you want to look up the provision for Rajasapa it's article 80 of the constitution. The idea in the US system was that the upper house which is the Senate will act as a check against majoritarianism right. So states that have fewer people don't want to be overwhelmed by states that have lots of people right.

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