Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan backs MK Stalin’s push against delimitation

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday said that he supports efforts being made by the Tamil Nadu government against the proposed delimitation exercise to redraw the boundary of Lok Sabha constituencies.

On March 7, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin called on the leaders of Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, West Bengal, Odisha and Punjab to form a joint action committee against the exercise.

The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief urged his counterparts in the seven states to join the committee for its first meeting in Chennai on March 22.

On Friday, Vijayan said that he had met Tamil Nadu’s IT and Digital Services Minister Palanivel Thiagarajan and South Chennai MP Thamizhachi Thangapandian, who invited him for the committee meeting.

“Stand in solidarity on this pressing issue,” the Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader said on social media.

Delimitation is the process of fixing boundaries of territorial constituencies. Article 82 of the Constitution states that after every census is completed, the allocation of Lok Sabha seats to each state must be adjusted based on changes in their population.

The composition of the current Lok Sabha is based on the 1971 census. According to the 84th Amendment Act of 2001, the constituency boundaries were frozen until the first census after 2026, which would be due in 2031.

However, southern states have...

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