Census delayed to speed up delimitation: P Chidambaram
Chennai: Former union finance minister
P Chidambaram
said on Thursday that the Union govt had delayed the census deliberately to undertake the delimitation exercise.
"A delayed Census after 2026 will trigger the provision that delimitation shall be done immediately afterwards.
That is why the announcement to conduct a Census in 2027. Since the Census will be conducted in 2027, delimitation will follow," Chidambaram said in a social media post.
Claiming that Tamil Nadu and several states will stand to lose seats in the Lok Sabha, Chidambaram said Prime Minister Modi is moving "step-by-step to achieve the RSS-BJP's mischievous goal of reducing the representation of the southern states and increasing the representation of the northern states."
The BJP govt at the centre had announced that the decadal census, which was scheduled to have happened in 2021, will commence from March, 2027.
Chidambaram said some political parties undermine the dangers of delimitation exercise.
"Even now, not all the political parties in the to-be-affected states are alive to the dangers of delimitation on the basis of proportional representation (one person, one vote)," Chidambaram said.
Appreciating chief minister M K Stalin for voicing out his opposition to the delay in census, Chidambaram said he was glad that Stalin has articulated the dangers of census in 2027 and delimitation soon after the census.
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