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DMK president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin connected Tuesday (March 24, 2026) called for the convening of a peculiar league of Parliament successful aboriginal June to enact amendments to the Constitution of India with respect to delimitation, specified arsenic an summation successful seats, continuation of the existent stock of practice of States, and a warrant that specified practice volition proceed for the adjacent 30 years.
In a station connected X, Mr. Stalin said caller paper reports indicated that women’s practice successful Parliament and Legislative Assemblies was being considered based connected the 2011 Census. The step is not successful enactment with The Constitution (128th Amendment) Bill, 2023, passed by the BJP government astatine the Centre, and its earlier presumption to instrumentality up the inaugural lone aft delimitation is carried retired based connected the Census conducted aft 2026, the Chief Minister said.
The caller paper reports bespeak that women's practice successful Parliament and Legislative Assemblies is being considered based connected the 2011 Census.
This measurement is not successful enactment with The Constitution (128th Amendment) Bill, 2023 passed by the Union BJP Government and its earlier… https://t.co/MxeW5vQ2O0
“This is astir most apt aimed astatine securing electoral gains successful the forthcoming Assembly elections successful 4 large States. Pushing specified an important measurement erstwhile the Model Code of Conduct is already successful unit is unprecedented,” Mr. Stalin pointed out.
“As the president of the DMK and the arrogant inheritor of the Dravidian bequest that has spearheaded women’s empowerment for much than a century, I afloat enactment this inaugural of women’s preservation without immoderate preconditions, portion astatine the aforesaid clip stressing our close to just delimitation,” helium said.
“It is our accordant basal that the existent proportional practice of States should not beryllium disturbed nether immoderate circumstances. To execute this, the delimitation and organisation of constituencies among States indispensable see a law proviso ensuring the aforesaid for the adjacent 30 years,” Mr. Stalin said.
Considering the existent Model Code of Conduct and the preoccupation of governmental parties, helium demanded that a peculiar league of Parliament beryllium convened successful aboriginal June to enact these law amendments for delimitation.
