Amit Shah’s assurance to southern states about delimitation not trustworthy: Karnataka CM

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday claimed that Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s assurance that southern states would not suffer due to a proposed delimitation exercise were “not trustworthy”.

“The Union home minister Amit Shah’s statement that he will not allow injustice to be done to the southern states during the delimitation of constituencies is not credible,” Siddaramaiah said in a post on social media. “It is tainted with malicious intent to create confusion in the southern states.”

The chief minister alleged Shah’s “sweeping statement” suggested either a lack of information or a deliberate intention to wrong Karnataka and other South Indian states.

On Wednesday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that South Indian states would not lose a single Lok Sabha seat on account of a proposed nationwide delimitation exercise.

“The Modi government has made it clear in Lok Sabha that after delimitation, on pro rata basis, not a single seat will be reduced in any southern state,” Shah said at an event in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore. “And I want to reassure the public of South India that Modi ji has kept your interest in mind to make sure that not even one seat is reduced pro rata. And whatever increase is there, southern states will get a fair share,...

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