Delimitation, Muslim rights: Modi unveils strategic counter to Opposition’s caste census gambit
Struggling for an effective counter to the Opposition’s demand for a nationwide caste census on the lines of the one completed in Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that South India stood to lose 100 Lok Sabha seats if the Congress’ idea of “Jitni Aabadi, Utna Haq” were to be taken into consideration for the exercise of delimitation.
Addressing a rally in poll-bound Telangana where the BJP has been working hard to gain a foothold, the Prime Minister said that delimitation based on population would lead to a drastic fall in representation in Parliament for the South. South Indian states including Telangana (17), Andhra Pradesh (25), Kerala (20), Tamil Nadu (39) and Karnataka (28) collectively account for 129 of the 543 seats in Lok Sabha.
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“The country is now talking about the next delimitation. It will mean that wherever the population is less, the Lok Sabha seats will come down, and rise where the population is high… The southern states have achieved remarkable progress in population control, but will stand to lose heavily if the Congress’s new idea of rights in proportion to population is implemented… South India stands to lose 100 Lok Sabha seats… Will South India accept this? Will South India forgive the Congress? I want to tell Congress leaders not to fool the nation. Make it clear why they are playing this game,” Modi said.
The idea of ‘Jitni Aabadi Utna haq’ was first floated by Congress MP Rahul Gandhi in the run-up to the Karnataka elections and taken up more aggressively during the passage of the Women’s Reservation Act in
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