What happened
A high-level committee has recommended freezing parliamentary constituency boundaries based on the 1971 census for another hundred years, stretching until 2126. In a country obsessed with being 'Viksit' (developed) by 2047, the bureaucracy has decided that the most efficient way to manage the future is to pretend the population hasn't changed since the era of bell-bottoms and the first transistor radios. It is a bold commitment to ensuring that 'New India' is governed by the ghost of 'Old India' for at least five more generations.