Southern States Should Collectively Oppose Delimitation, Says Telangana Minister KTR – The Wire

He asked why Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka should get fewer Lok Sabha seats in the new delimitation for heeding the Centre’s suggestion on implementing population controlling measures.
BRS leader K.T. Rama Rao. Photo: Twitter/@KTRBRS
New Delhi: Southern states should not be punished for controlling their population growth and concentrating on development, Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) working president K.T. Rama Rao said on Tuesday, May 30, commenting on the planned delimitation of Lok Sabha seats after 2026.
According to The Hindu, the IT minister of Telangana said that “it is time for all the political parties in the South, cutting across party affiliations, to raise their voice against the injustice” of the delimitation process. He said the “progressive policies” of the Southern States were “harming them while those unable to control their population to ensure proper distribution of resources were benefitting from the delimitation”.
If the delimitation process is conducted only on the basis of population, several states in North India are expected to have more representatives in the Lok Sabha while those in the South may lose a few.
“How can the South States Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka get fewer Lok Sabha seats in the new delimitation for heeding the Centre’s suggestion on implementing population controlling measures,” he asked in a statement.
The BRS leader said that the Southern states, which account for just 18% of the country’s population, contribute 35% of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). These “progressive states contributing to the nation’s economy and development should not be ignored and put at a disadvantage”, he said.
The minister said those states, particularly in the North, which have ignored the Union government’s population control measures “were benefitting from the delimitation while those striving to strengthen the national economy were being undermined in the Lok Sabha delimitation process”.

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