Overview
- Tamil Nadu chief minister M. K. Stalin said Wednesday that his state will not accept any delimitation move taken without its consent and accused the Centre of keeping the plan secret.
- Stalin pressed the Union government to postpone a special Parliament sitting on the issue until after April 29, warning that pushing constitutional changes during ongoing state elections without all-party talks signals authoritarian intent.
- Arguing that redrawing seats by current population will shift power north, he said faster-growing northern states could gain at the expense of the South, which curbed population growth, with the South’s share of seats projected to hover near 24%.
- Invoking former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s 2001 decision to defer delimitation for 25 years, Stalin called for broad consultation and said any change must secure consent from affected states.
- He opposed tying a proposed one‑third quota for women to new seat maps and said the reservation should be implemented on existing constituencies, as BJP leaders and the AIADMK countered his claims and Prime Minister Modi said at a Kerala rally there would be no cut in southern seats.