A delegation of DMK met Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy in New Delhi and handed over Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s letter inviting him for a meeting in Chennai on March 22, 2025, on the apprehensions regarding delimitation.
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Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy termed the delimitation exercise as a ‘limitation for the South India’, labelled it as a conspiracy against the Southern states.
He expressed the views on Thursday (March 13, 2025) after a delegation of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagham (DMK) party led by Tamil Nadu Municipal Administration Minister K.N. Nehru handed over a letter written by the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin inviting him for a meeting on March 22 in Chennai called to discuss the delimitation exercise and the fear of South being reduced to a few seats compared to the Northern States.
Mr. Reddy said that Central Government’s ‘conspiracy’ should be exposed and thwarted and termed the entire exercise of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as a revenge on the Southern States for not allowing the party claim power.
Assuring that he would personally attend the meeting in Chennai with Congress party high command’s permission, Mr. Revanth Reddy warned that Southern States would not tolerate any attempts to reduce the importance of the Southern states in national politics. “We (Southern States) have served and contributed hugely to the country’s progress,” he reminded adding that BJP doesn’t have much representation in the South and it wants to reduce South’s importance.
Telangana’s all-party meeting
The Chief Minister also said that the Telangana government has called for an all-party meeting to discuss the delimitation of the constituencies, and Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka and senior leader K Jana Reddy have been entrusted with the responsibility of inviting all the parties and laying the roadmap to save Telangana’s interests.
The Chief Minister said that the Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy, who is also the BJP Telangana president, would be invited to the meeting and it was his responsibility to participate in the meeting and take the apprehensions of the South to the attention of the Union Cabinet.
Praises Stalin
Mr. Revanth Reddy also complimented Mr. Stalin for playing a key role on highlighting the apprehensions with the delimitation and assured he would get all the support.
In his letter to the Chief Minister, Mr. Stalin stated that although there were provisions that the redistribution of constituencies should not be carried out until the census is conducted after 2026, the Central government had raked up issue out of it much before that.
Mr. Stalin stated in the letter that an all-party meeting had already been held in Tamil Nadu on the delimitation. He has requested the States of Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, West Bengal, Odisha and Punjab to join the Joint Action Committee (JAC). He suggested in the letter that a representative from the Telangana Congress be appointed in the JAC to take up future work.
The DMK delegation that met the Chief Minister included special representative AKS Vijayan, DMK Parliamentary Party Leader Kanimozhi, DMK MPs A. Raja, N.R. Ilango, Kalanithi Veeraswamy and Arun Nehru.
Published – March 13, 2025 03:57 pm IST
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