COMMENT | How amendments to Constitution affected redelineation

COMMENT | In Part 1 of the series, we examined the possibility of a fair redelineation exercise and how it got annulled.

Subsequent 1962, 1973 and 1984 constitutional amendments diluted the concept of equality of voting strength, reduced EC powers in some areas and allowed EC not to comply with the redelineation principle.

However, some of the amendments of 1962 and 1984 were responsible for laying the grounds for the next two redelineation exercises getting annulled or...