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Forest rights could decide election results in 133 Lok Sabha seats: Report

An analysis finds that the number of voters eligible for land rights under the FRA is more than the margin of victory in more than 95% of the seats

Forest rights could decide election results in 133 Lok Sabha seats: Report
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Bhasker Tripathi | IndiaSpend New Delhi
Poor implementation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) could be a deciding factor in nearly a quarter (133) of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in the 2019 general elections, according to an analysis by Community Forest Resource-Learning and Advocacy (CFR-LA), an NGO network.
Analysing the results of the 2014 general elections in the 133 constituencies with a large proportion of tribal dwellers, the analysis finds that the number of voters eligible for land rights under the FRA is more than the margin of victory in more than 95% of

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