'Imaginary fears,' Annamalai slams Stalin on delimitation issue

Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai on Saturday said his party would not take part in the March 5 all-party meeting on the delimitation exercise and blamed Chief Minister M K Stalin for attempting to spread "imaginary fears" over the matter. Writing to Stalin, Annamalai said his party firmly believed that he has misconstrued the delimitation exercise and has convened the all party meeting to "spread your imaginary fears and deliberately lie about it," even before any official statement was made.
Pointing to Union Home Minister Amit Shah's statement that no state would be "undermined," and that the exercise shall be on a pro rata basis, the Tamil Nadu BJP chief told Stalin: "You must understand that the announcement for the delimitation exercise will be made at an appropriate time by the delimitation commission and it is disheartening to notice that you have still not learnt lessons from the lies you spread when one nation one election was announced and later when those got debunked." Wondering why the "imaginary fear" was not taken by the DMK in the Lok Sabha during the recent budget session, Annamalai, referring to Stalin's claim that the number of seats in the Lok Sabha was set to go up to 848, asked the basis for that claim.
Annamalai slammed Stalin by asking him if it was not his duty to validate and verify before making a statement. The BJP leader informed Stalin that his party would launch on March 5 its signature campaign in support of the 3-language policy.Annamalai said that the INDIA bloc's campaign line had been "Jitne Abadhi Utni Haq," and (Rights proportional to the population) in 2023 and PM Narendra Modi had hit back saying it would hurt the southern states which effectively implemented population control measures.