Delimitation exercise would reduce the strength of Tamil Nadu LS seats: Stalin

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has accused the BJP government of planning to reduce the number of 39 Lok Sabha constituencies in Tamil Nadu in Parliament with the delimitation exercise.

In a social media post titled “PM Modi’s blatant conspiracy to reduce the strength of Tamil Nadu’ on X, Stalin wrote that “A serious disadvantage for Tamil Nadu, if BJP comes back to power, is to increase the number of members in the Parliament of India in the name of constituency demiliation exercise. This move will punish the states including Tamilnadu which have controlled the population better.What is the justification for punishing states that do well on population control and doubling the number of constituencies for states that don’t? Isn’t it a danger to democracy to punish us for doing well? It’s never dawn if you don’t wake up now.”

The DMK president who is part of the INDIA bloc in te 2024 Lok Sabha polls further said “if our representation in the Lok Sabha further decreases, the Tamils ​​will be defeated by the BJP. We are already experiencing discriminatory injustice in tax distribution. Let’s put an end to the dictatorial Modi regime that takes away political rights, suppresses the intellectual voice of Tamil Nadu and makes them second-class citizens.There is no difference between voting for Modi’s BJP and voting for Edappadi Palaniswami’s AIADMK. Either of them is going to win.”