HYDERABAD: The Delimitation Commission will be coming out with its final proposals for Andhra Pradesh within the next two weeks. It will have a meeting with the Associate Members, comprising MPs and MLAs, in New Delhi on April 5 to discuss the objections raised by public representatives and people and the dissent notes thereof at the public hearings held on March 6, 8, 9 and 10 at Tirupati, Visakhapatnam and Hyderabad.

Sources point out that before finalising the proposals, the Commission would meet State Election Commissioner A. V. S. Reddy and the Chief Electoral Officer V. Bhaskar.

Complaints

The Commission has been flooded with complaints from Kadapa, Nellore, Khammam, Nalgonda, East Godavari and West Godavari that the draft proposals for delimiting constituencies in these districts lack contiguity, natural barriers and compactness.

While it is expected that some 50-60 constituencies would be wiped out in the delimitation exercise, the SC constituencies bunched in clusters may undergo changes. Some of the Assembly segments - P. Gannavaram, Amalapuram and Razole (East Godavari), Chintalapudi, Gopalapuram and Kovvur (West Godavari), Addanki, Santhanuthalapadu and Kondepi (Prakasam) and Tadikonda, Vemur and Prattipadu (Guntur) - may be replaced with constituencies with the next highest percentage of SC population, according to indications available from the Commission.

Among the Parliamentary constituencies, Ramagundem (Telangana), which has the highest SC population, may be retained as per the draft proposal paving way for exclusion of Karimnagar and Warangal from the list. The Commission might choose two Parliamentary constituencies out of Nagarkurnool, Chevella, Bhongir and Khammam for inclusion in the reserved category list.

Warangal's case

Warangal district faces a peculiar situation as per the draft proposals with both its Parliamentary constituencies and six out of 12 (with Wardhannapet getting obliterated out of the original 13) Assembly segments earmarked as reserved. Khairatabad Assembly segment with the largest population will also vanish from the political map after delimitation.

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