Veteran BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi has stressed the need to ensure economic equality and equal development of all states to fulfil the mandate of the Constitution, saying welfare doesn't happen by ''distributing money'' in the elections.

Addressing an event here on Thursday, Joshi suggested that to end discrimination, smaller states should be created out of existing ones with equal number of constituencies in each of them and almost equal population.

The event was organised to mark 91st birth anniversary of G V G Krishnamurthy, former election commission of India and ex-law secretary.

Every citizen has the equal right to vote, but there is a huge difference in the economic heft of people living in states like Karnataka, Bihar and Maharashtra, the former Union minister said.

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