The Joint Action Committee (JAC) meeting, scheduled to be organised by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on 22 March to discuss the issue of delimitation of seats in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies, seems like a divided house of hypocrisy. Two things stand out markedly—the Congress party’s bizarre duplicitous stand and the DMK’s conspicuous timing in raising the issue of delimitation.

With invitations extended to seven Chief Ministers and 29 political parties, the core agenda of the JAC is to oppose delimitation based on population, arguing that it would deny the Southern states their rights and punish them for effectively controlling population growth. In the context of delimitation, nothing could contradict the JAC’s position more than Rahul Gandhi’s vehement advocacy of Jitni Abadi, Utna Haq—rights proportional to population.

Slamming this refrain of Rahul Gandhi as discriminatory, PM Modi had forewarned........

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