Twin stains on our electoral system

By M. Veera Pandiyan

THE just ended political drama of GE15 has yet again thrown the spotlight on the twin blights of the country's electoral system.

Since the 1970s the system has been flawed by the blatant gerrymandering of parliamentary and state constituencies and the disproportionate sizes of urban and state constituencies.

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