Priyanka Tiwari
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MK Stalin, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to agree that the delimitation exercise will be conducted with regard to the 1971 Census only after the year 2026 and will not be altered for the next 30 years.
"Prime Minister should be in a position to accept that the delimitation exercise will only be based on the 1971 census for the next 30 years, from the year 2026, and no changes will be made in the number of parliamentary seats for Tamil Nadu. Therefore, the relevant constitutional provisions shall be amended. Such all-party meetings aims know as capturing the low hanging expectations of Tamil Nadu. This will then be communicated to the public so that they also get educated on this matter. A movement platform will also be established to enable the southern MPs to take the issue forward," said the CM during the meeting for the all-party concerning the delimitation proposal.
As claimed by the CM of Tamil Nadu, if 22 more parliamentary seats are created, the state is entitled to receive 22 of them. "Given the current population estimation, we stand to gain only 10 additional seats which suggests that we will be losing 12 seats. This is an outright assault on the political representation of Tamil Nadu in Indian democracy. Stalins claims with indentations cuts through casting shadows over citizens from Tamil Nadu. The capacity of our state in safeguarding the interest of its citizens is being diminished,” he said.”
Simultaneously, Narayanan Thirupathy, vice president of TN BJP, remarked that undoubtedly South India has contributed towards population control which is why it got 0.5% in the Finance Commission. “Not even the DMK acknowledged it. MK Stalin said that Sanskrit is a dead language; then why was it made one of the scheduled languages by the DMK in 2005 during its UPA government?" MK Stalin swore on the Indian constitution, not the Tamil Nadu Constitution. He should grasp this as a matured Chief Minister... He needs to tell his MPs to resign if they are against Hindi being the official language of The Parliament of India, The Constitutional Assembly... “If he really loved Tamil, he would have embraced the National Educational Policy that seeks to enhance the use of Tamil across India," he said to ANI.
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