Delimitation is not a backdoor exercise: Tejasvi Surya
Live Tejasvi Surya, continuing his remarks in the Lok Sabha, said that if delimitation were carried out solely on the basis of the 2011 Census, Tamil Nadu would not receive 59 seats as mentioned in the Bill, while Andhra Pradesh would get 27 seats. He said the share of southern states in the overall allocation currently stood at 23.7 per cent and would continue.
"Delimitation is not a backdoor exercise. We are purely following what the Constitution mandates,” says BJP leader Tejasvi Surya, while responding to Gaurav Gogoi. Surya said that if Lok Sabha seats remain frozen and women’s reservation is implemented in the current structure, the principle under Article 81 of “One Person, One Vote, One Value” would be defeated.
Speaking in the Lok Sabha, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Tejasvi Surya said that over the past three days, the Opposition had carried out a systematic campaign of misinformation in southern India on the issue of delimitation. “I come from the south, from Karnataka,” he said, responding to remarks made earlier by Gaurav Gogoi. Surya added that delimitation was not a “backdoor exercise” and said the government was only following what the Constitution mandates.
