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United for a cause: Pinarayi Vijayan, Bhagwant Mann, M.K. Stalin and Revanth Reddy at the meeting in Chennai.
Demand made by Joint Action Committee on Fair Delimitation; the attendees included the CMs of T.N., Kerala, Telangana, and Punjab
the leaders of several States vowed to stand together against what they termed the BJP’s bid to reduce the number of Lok Sabha seats in the southern States through delimitation, so that it could stay in power just by winning seats in northern India where it has greater influence.
The Joint Action Committee on Fair Delimitation demanded that the freeze on the number of Lok Sabha constituencies, based on the 1971 Census, be extended for another 25years.
The meeting was hosted by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, and attended by the Chief Ministers of Kerala, Telangana, and Punjab — Pinarayi Vijayan,Revanth Reddy, and Bhagwant Mann, respectively — Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, Bharat Rashtra Samith leader K.T. Rama Rao, and Biju Janata Dal president Naveen Patnaik