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The 84th Amendment froze the allocation of Lok Sabha seats among the states on the basis of the 1971 census until
Answer: D
Correct answer: The first census after 2026
The 84th Amendment of 2001 extended the freeze on the allocation of Lok Sabha seats among the states, based on the 1971 census, until the first census taken after 2026. The freeze was first imposed by the 42nd Amendment in 1976, and its purpose is to remove a perverse incentive: since seats are allotted in proportion to population, states that succeeded in reducing their population growth would otherwise have lost representation to those that did not. Freezing the figures ensured that family planning success carried no political penalty. The consequence is a growing disparity in constituency size, with some seats now representing several times as many people as others. The 84th Amendment did permit readjustment of boundaries within each state on 2001 census figures, which was carried out by the Delimitation Commission of 2002, so constituencies were redrawn without the state totals changing. What happens after 2026 is politically fraught, since the southern states would lose seats relative to the north.
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