Mallikarjun Kharge writes to PM Modi, seeks all-party meeting on delimitation

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to convene an all-party meeting to discuss the government’s proposals on delimitation.

Mr. Kharge, making his letter public, stated that he has been writing to Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Kiren Rijiju to convene an all-party meeting on delimitation since March, but he added that, ”Unfortunately, these requests had not been accepted.”

In his letter to Mr. Modi, he requested the Prime Minister to provide the Opposition the adequate time to study the revised proposals on delimitation before it is introduced in Parliament.

The Congress chief’s letter comes days after it emerged that the government is learnt to be working on multiple formulations to increase the number of Lok Sabha seats for all states by 50% to assuage the concerns of southern States, as it seeks to operationalise a fresh draft of the Constitution amendment Bill on women’s quota law.