Former Union minister and senior Congress chief P Chidambaram mentioned on Friday that the celebration desires the present allocation of Lok Sabha seats to be maintained for one more 25 years, with no change to the present energy of 543 seats or Tamil Nadu’s 39 constituencies.Chidambaram added that the resolutions handed by the Tamil Nadu Legislative Meeting and the Congress Working Committee on delimitation mirrored the identical place.“The resolutions handed by the Tamil Nadu Legislative Meeting and the Congress Working Committee concerning the delimitation of Lok Sabha constituencies mirror the identical stance. There needs to be no change to the present Lok Sabha energy of 543 seats or Tamil Nadu’s allocation of 39 constituencies. The Congress celebration’s place is that the present seat allocations needs to be maintained for one more 25 years,” Chidambaram mentioned in a publish on X.“It’s gratifying that each the ruling celebration (TVK) and the principal opposition celebration (DMK) in Tamil Nadu assist this stance,” he added.The event comes a day after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Joseph Vijay raised considerations over the proposed Delimitation Invoice, 2026, warning that southern states might lose parliamentary illustration if seats are redistributed totally on the premise of inhabitants.Talking on the thirty first assembly of the Southern Zonal Council chaired by Union House Minister Amit Shah on Thursday, Vijay, who can also be the council’s vice-chairman, sought an assurance from the Centre that states that had efficiently stabilised their populations wouldn’t be penalised by a discount of their parliamentary illustration.He mentioned the problem had assumed significance because the freeze on the allocation of Lok Sabha seats based mostly on the 1971 Census approaches its finish.“Because the freeze on the allocation of Lok Sabha seats based mostly on the 1971 Census approaches its finish and the Delimitation Invoice, 2026, is taken into account, there’s a real and shared concern throughout the Southern States that delimitation based mostly predominantly on populations could diminish our collective voice in Parliament,” he mentioned.
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Vijay mentioned southern states had efficiently managed inhabitants progress whereas making progress in human growth and financial progress. He argued that these achievements mustn’t result in a discount of their political illustration.The Tamil Nadu Meeting had earlier handed a particular decision urging the Centre to completely retain the Lok Sabha’s energy at 543 seats.The federal government-sponsored decision additionally known as for the 33 per cent reservation for girls to be carried out within the 2029 Lok Sabha elections directly, based mostly on the present energy of 543 seats.
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