Shah dismisses apprehensions of south losing LS seats in delimitation

Chennai, : Dismissing the apprehensions of Tamil Nadu and other southern states of their Lok Sabha seats coming down in the proposed delimitation exercise next year, Union Home Minister and BJP strongman Amit Shah on Wednesday assured that not
even a single seat will be reduced and accused Chief Minister MK Stalin of spreading a red herring to divert attention on the phenomenal corruption under the DMK regime. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi has clarified in the Lok Sabha itself that even after delimitation, none of the southern states will not lose the current number of seats in parliament. On the contrary, there would be an increase in seats,” Shah said speaking after inaugurating the newly built BJP office complex in Coimbatore. He was here to participate in the Maha Shivaratri celebration at Isha Yoga Centre of Jaggi Vasudev on the outskirts of the textile city. Stalin, who described the delimitation exercise based on population as a Damocles sword hanging over the head of southern states, had said that TamilNadu would stand to lose eight LS seats. It would be a punishment for the southern states for the successful implementation of the family planning programme, he pointed out and had also called for an allparty meeting on March 5 to discuss the ‘threat faced by Tamil Nadu’ and to decide the future course of action to protect the state’s rights. The Home Minister, accusing the Chief Minister of raking the delimitation to divert attention from the phenomenal corruption under the DMK government. “All the leaders of the DMK are holders of Master’s Degrees in cases of corruption

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