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Can you pls. explain whether this question "The debate....constituencies together" contains any independent clause?
I'm unable to find any subject-verb pair, which makes this an independent clause.
There are a ton of modifiers in this sentence, so it's admittedly challenging to find the main clause. Once you temporarily strip out the modifiers, you end up with "The debate centers on the issue." "The debate" is the subject and "centers" is the main verb.
The tricky part is properly stripping out the modifiers to help you see the main clause. If you reduce the sentence to "The debate constituencies together", you've removed the main verb, and you end up with a fragment, as Karishma indicated.
I hope that helps!