The delimitation is puzzling every party at the local level and all the allies at national scene. It’s now decided that the next elections will be fought on newly carved battlefields, as no party is in position to bring majority this time.

With all the other parties, the Congress has also started brainstorming on the selection of the candidates for the next Lok Sabha elections. But the altered boundaries of the parliamentary constituencies have put party leaders in a peculiar situation.

At the national headquarters in New Delhi, the party has nothing sort of cast equation data of the constituencies throughout the country, which, as we all very well know, happens to be one of the main basis of the selection of the candidates in our political system.

Party sources claim instructions have been issued to all the state units to provide the data of electorate in all the parliamentary constituencies on the religion and cast base. Sources say, in fact, the party has, in the last two-three elections, found the data, provided by internal system, faulty, that resulted in defeats. Some of the senior leaders of the party clandestinely accept that some influential state leaders succeed to pressurise the ranks to change the cast equation data in the favour of the candidates of their choice.

This time the party leaders, in Delhi, want a fool proof cast data of every single constituency. For this, they don’t want to rely only on the organisational system of data collection. One of the senior Congress leader said, “We know, this time, no party is in position to bring majority. Every seat will be important. We can not take risk.”

Following the same line, the Congress headed United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the center has instructed the Intelligence Bureau (IB) to bring out a survey of all the new parliamentary constituencies and provide a conclusive new data base of cast equations in the same.

In the past, we have seen many election reports, prepared by the IB, proving futile for the incumbent governments. But, till date, no party has developed any professional system for such type of surveys and data collection within their organisational system. Still they like to demand a report from the IB, instead of believing the reports prepared by their own party organisation.