In this episode of the LAOT Podcast, Arnav Mathur speaks with Dr. Sidharth Chauhan (Assistant Professor, NLSIU Bangalore) about the persistent neglect of electoral reservations within India's constitutional jurisprudence on affirmative action. The conversation traces why political representation, despite predating and arguably outweighing reservations in education and employment in consequence, has generated only a thin body of case law, and argues that this neglect stems from its exclusion from the fundamental rights chapter and its roots in a colonial logic of consociationalism rather than constitutional social transformation. Together, they examine the doctrinal confusion in the Krishna Murthy judgment, which distinguishes political barriers from socio-economic ones yet still imports the 50% reservation ceiling and creamy layer anxieties from education and employment jurisprudence, and unpack the practical fallout of this contradiction across Telangana, Maharashtra, and Uttar Pradesh. They discuss why subclassification, creamy layer exclusion, and religious conversion bars may be poorly suited to the logic of electoral consolidation, and debate whether breaching the 50% ceiling could, in fact, be the more constitutionally coherent path forward for political representation specifically. Finally, drawing on the legal theory of Niklas Luhmann and Günther Teubner, they reflect on why courts, even when equipped to recognize a domain as conceptually distinct, tend to fall back on borrowed doctrine, and what it would take for adjudication to build a genuinely independent theory of political equality.