Delimitation: BRS to attend Stalin’s meet, Revanth says will seek high command nod

“I welcome Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin’s stand. I have to get permission from the (Congress) high command to attend the meeting. In principle, I have agreed to attend,” Reddy told reporters.

The delegation that met Revanth in Delhi, included DMK MP Kanimozhi, TN minister K N Nehru and former Union minister A Raja. The Telangana CM described delimitation as a “limitation for the South” and alleged that the BJP wants to “settle scores against South India” through the exercise, as the region has never allowed the party to grow there.

“The BJP is conspiring against southern states in the name of delimitation… At any cost, we are not going to accept this limitation,” he said.

“We are paying more taxes than North India. We are contributing everything to the nation. Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and even Karnataka have rejected them (BJP). They have no representation in Andhra Pradesh. That is why they want to settle scores. This is vendetta politics,” he told reporters.

Before the meeting in Chennai, the Telangana government will host an all-party meeting on delimitation in the state. He said he would also invite BJP leaders in Telangana, adding that they must take responsibility for protecting the state’s rights.

BRS working president K T Rama Rao, while speaking to reporters after meeting a DMK delegation including K N Nehru and Rajya Sabha member N R Elango, said party president K Chandrasekhar Rao has directed the party to participate in the TN meet and express its views.

“We will be participating in the meeting on March 22 in Chennai,” he said, adding that the BRS also believes that South India, which has performed exceptionally well in family planning, should not be penalised for implementing the Central government’s recommendations in the 1970s and 1980s.

Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah has requested deputy CM D K Shivakumar to attend the delimitation meeting in Chennai. In a letter dated March 13 to Stalin, he stated, “Although I would like to participate in the meeting, due to my prior commitments, I am unable to do so…”