COIMBATORE: A day after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin raised an apprehension that the State’s representation in the Lok Sabha is expected to reduce in the delimitation exercise, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday countered him saying no southern states including Tamil Nadu would see a reduction in the Parliamentary representation when delimitation is done on pro-rata basis.
“Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin and his son and Deputy Chief Minister Udayanithi Stalin are creating a new problem every day to hide their leaders' corrupt practices. The recent one was the all-party meeting to discuss the delimitation process. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had already clarified in the Parliament that not even a single seat would be reduced in states in the south Indian, and in turn, the southern state would get more seats on a pro-rata basis,” he said, after inaugurating BJP’s new district headquarters building at Peelamedu.
“Chief Minister MK Stalin is making false statements and cheating the people of Tamil Nadu without having any evidence that the people of the state would be betrayed in the delimitation process. This is condemnable, and the CM should give an answer to me, on what basis he is making the statement that parliament seats would come down in Tamil Nadu due to the delimitation process,” questioned Amit Shah.
“During the ten years of the UPA regime between 2004 and 2014, the Congress-led government has given 1.52 lakh crore (devolution and grant-in-aid) to the Tamil Nadu government. However, during the Modi regime in the ten years between 2014 and 2024, 5.08 lakh crore is given to the Tamil Nadu government. Moreover, 1.43 crore has been allocated to the Tamil Nadu government for infrastructure works during the BJP regime,” he noted, saying he is speaking with evidence and added he has done injustice to the people of Tamil Nadu when DMK was part of the UPA regime.
The home minister also charged that the law and order situation in Tamil Nadu has deteriorated when compared to other states. “It is the worst example that there is no protection and security to even university-going girl students,” he said, reacting to the sexual assault on the girl student of Anna University.
Amit Shah also said that the time has come to put an end to the DMK’s anti-national and anti-people ruling in Tamil Nadu. He also said that 2026 in Tamil Nadu will commence with the victory of the NDA alliance, like the victory that happened to the BJP in Delhi on the commencement of this year.
In 2026, NDA alliance will form the government in Tamil Nadu, which would provide corrupt-free governance and put an end to separatism.
Amit Shah has also blamed the DMK leaders for having master's degrees in corrupt practices.
Indirectly targeting Tamil Nadu ministers, Amit Shah said one of the leaders has created an achievement in a job scam and another leader is caught in money laundering as well as an illegal sand mining case.
“While another leader was involved in a coal scam and another leader got in a 6,000 CRIDP scam. Still, we can’t forget the 2G scam. We suspect that the DMK has given membership based on their high level of corruption. Because of the corrupt DMK leaders, Tamils and people of Tamil Nadu are suffering. To hide their activities, CM and his son Udayanithi Stalin are creating a new problem every day, like the convening of all party meetings for the delimitation process,” said Amit Shah.
Amit Shah also said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the only PM since independence promoting Tamil culture and language.
Amit Shah has virtually inaugurated similar new office buildings for the party at Tiruvannamalai and Ramanathapuram.
Calling for an all party meeting on March 5 to discuss to safeguard state’s interest during the delimitation exercise, Stalin on Tuesday said that the number of Lok Sabha MPs from Tamil Nadu would reduce from 39 to 31 if the exercise is done as per the present population or get only 10 additional seats instead of 22 if the total number of Lok Sabha seats were increased to 848 from 545, as per the second approach.
