Stalin's South Huddle: DMK's Anti-Delimitation Outreach Widens

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin is expanding his spectrum of resistance to delimitation. After reaching out to Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, former Chief Ministers YS Jagan Mohan Mohan Reddy and Naveen Patnaik and the TDP, a delegation of DMK leaders invited Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy to attend a meeting convened by the DMK on March 22 in Chennai. The meeting is being held to discuss the adverse impact of the proposed delimitation of Lok Sabha segments in the southern states. This comes after repeated assurance by the Centre that the south doesn't need to worry and that they will not be penalised for their effective population control policies. At the centre of the row is the apprehension that Tamil Nadu might lose representation in Parliament if the exercise was to be carried out based on the latest population data, or that is what the DMK has claimed. Will this deepen the fault lines between the North and South of India? Will DMK succeed in getting the support it is looking for? And is MK Stalin justified in raising concerns around the matter, or is he playing politics?