After Stalin, Siddaramaiah joins issue with Centre on delimitation question

Delimitation is a ticking political time bomb that will render South India less relevant to the country's power politics whenever it explodes as the region stands to lose a significant number of the Lok Sabha seats if the delimitation exercise is done on the basis of fresh census.

- LAKSHMANA VENKAT KUCHI

Various studies have indicated that South India could see a fall in its Lok Sabha seats' tally vis-a-vis the North. Hence, south Indian political leaders are scared of the prospects of losing out on electoral politics as a fallout of the delimitation.

Calling it a punishment for their performance in the arena of population control, South Indian political leaders have indicated that they have initiated negotiations to collectively tackle the crisis arising from the proposed delimitation exercise, likely to be undertaken after the completion of census next year.