New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh emphasised on Sunday that the constitutional mandate for delimitation must be implemented, asserting that political parties need to jointly decide whether to proceed or amend the provision rather than continuing to defer it.

In an interview with ANI, Harivansh pointed out that the redrawing of constituency boundaries has already been postponed twice in India's political history.

"I have a very clear stand on this. This is for the political parties to decide. But the Constitution has a provision for delimitation. If you talk about following the Constitution, you've postponed the delimitation in the Constitution twice," he said.

Harivansh noted that the delimitation exercise was...