00:00Q. A major event was conducted on Chennai on Saturday and that was about delimitation.
00:04The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, M. K. Stalin, brought in many leaders from various states
00:08to us and we have DMK leader and MP Kanimori.
00:12You played a crucial role in that particular meeting yesterday.
00:15Why is DMK against delimitation?
00:17A. N. Chakravarti I think Tamil Nadu Chief Minister has made
00:21it very clear that we are not against delimitation, we are against unfair delimitation.
00:29We do not want states like Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana, Punjab which have controlled
00:38the population.
00:39We have brought down the population much less than the average national statistics.
00:46And there are some states, the states which have brought down population have brought
00:52it down to figures around 12-14%.
00:57But there are states where population has increased to nearly 27% on the growth rate.
01:04So states which have brought down population should not suffer because delimitation as
01:11of now can be done only on the basis of population.
01:16So when you do it based on population, states which have controlled population obviously
01:20will suffer.
01:21We will be punished for good work.
01:24And states which have not controlled population, we are not against them, we are not saying
01:29that they have to suffer either, but they will be gaining more seats.
01:34So our representation in parliament will be reduced and there will be an unfair way of
01:41delimitation where states which have not controlled population will be benefiting out of it.
01:47So that is what we are against.
01:50We want delimitation to be fair.
01:52Dr. Urjit R. Patel Subtly, DMK Netas for the past three weeks
01:55have been also stating that considering the 888 seats in the new parliament, there is
01:59an absolute possibility if delimitation is implemented, entire south will not have a
02:04voice.
02:05Why does DMK think that way?
02:07Dr. Urjit R. Patel Yesterday, not just DMK, I think all the
02:11leaders who have participated in the program which our chief minister had invited and leaders
02:22from all across the country to come and participate in have voiced their opinion and concern that
02:29the entire south and just not the south, states like Punjab and other states are also going
02:35to lose out.
02:37So the percentage of the southern representation in the parliament will come down to a large
02:50extent and obviously when the numbers come down, politics is a in number game, you accept
02:56it or not.
02:58So when the numbers are going to come down, why would anybody give us the importance,
03:04when there is already devolution of funds and we are being forced to accept the three-language
03:11policy, for Tamil Nadu as an example, when we have pressures like that, then our voice
03:20will become even more immaterial in a larger scenario where our representation is going
03:26to be reduced.
03:27So we are concerned about it.
03:30BJP leaders are consecutively saying that it is either a distraction tactic or it's
03:36an actual delusion fear.
03:38How do you like to respond to that?
03:39We are not cooking up delimitation out of nowhere, we are not pulling it out of thin
03:45air.
03:46When the women's bill was passed, did you, that is the BJP, did you say or not that it
03:53will be implemented after delimitation, after census, after delimitation, 33% will be implemented.
04:02So it is only going to happen after the delimitation.
04:06So you are the ones who told us that there is going to be delimitation, we are not saying
04:10there is going to be delimitation, we are not going to say, so in the floor of the house
04:15you have passed a bill saying that it will be implemented after delimitation and not
04:21only that, when the Home Minister was here, he himself has said that Tamil Nadu will not
04:27suffer, it will be done on a pro-rata basis and there are answers in parliament given
04:33by the union government which says clearly that there will be delimitation.
04:39So we are not saying anything which is baseless, unless the government is coming out with statements
04:46which are far from the truth, we are worried about what will happen.
04:51So we want to talk about it, we want to have a clear answer and we want to know the direction
04:59in which it will go and we want to safeguard before it happens.
05:03Q. How far is DMK prepared to take this fight forward?
05:07We are prepared to fight as much as it takes to win.
05:12Thank you so much, that was Karim Ali MP who has very clearly mentioned delimitation is
05:16a fight DMK is going to take forward.
05:18With the view, Pramod Madhav for this day.
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