Overview
- Kanimozhi, speaking in the Lok Sabha on Friday, said linking the 33% women’s reservation to a delimitation exercise is a trap and urged implementation from 2029 without changing the current 543 seats.
- Responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “kala tika” remark from Thursday, she said black is the color of goddess Kali and Periyar, as DMK MPs again wore black in the House to press their protest.
- DMK chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin raised a black flag and burned a copy of the delimitation bill on Thursday, calling it a black law that would marginalize Tamil people.
- Congress MP K C Venugopal said the Centre notified the 2023 women’s reservation amendment only on Thursday night and urged withdrawal of the current bill for an all-party discussion on implementing the quota within 543 seats.
- Union Minister Kiren Rijiju said the late-night notification was procedural, while the core dispute centers on delimitation, which redraws constituency boundaries and can change seat shares in ways that some states fear would shrink their influence.