Delimitation: Siddaramaiah throws his weight behind Stalin’s March 22 meeting

Siddaramaiah has thrown his weight behind his Tamil Nadu counterpart MK Stalin’s initiative to bring all likeminded political parties together on the issue of delimitation of constituencies. On his behalf, Dy CM DK Shivakumar will attend the joint action committee meeting Stalin has called in Chennai on March 22.

Siddaramaiah, in a letter to the TN CM on Thursday, said his March 7 letter “raises very important issues of autonomy of States which have serious implications on the principles governing our polity. Particularly the issues of delimitation of the Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies based on new population benchmarks. These issues have to be discussed at length by the like minded states.”

He added he wished to participate in the meeting but was not able to do so in view of his prior commitments and Shivakumar will represent Karnataka. “We remain committed to protecting federal principles and the rights of states,” the CM said in a post on X.

«First JAC meeting in Chennai on March 22, 2025. Let us stand together not as separate political entities but as protectors of our people's future,» Stalin wrote in an earlier post on X.

Congress and DMK are part of the INDI alliance, the political grouping that fought the BJP and its alliance in the Lok Sabha elections, last year.

Live Events

Siddaramaiah had earlier come down heavily on home minister Amit Shah’s statement on delimitation which suggested that the proposed exercise would not hurt the southern states. “Either he lacks proper information or there is a deliberate intent to disadvantage the southern states, including Karnataka, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Andhra Pradesh,” Siddaramaiah had said.

In a separate post on X on Thursday, Siddaramaiah