While his Andhra Pradesh counterpart Chandrababu Naidu recently announced that his government was considering incentives for families having more children, the Tamil Nadu chief minister did not elaborate on his big family vision.
He said if the parliamentary seats are reduced, only the BRS would be able to fight for Telangana.
The BRS working president said having successfully implemented population control measures, the southern states are bound to lose out on representation in Parliament if the Centre carries out the delimitation programme on the basis of population.
Telangana Industry Minister KT Rama Rao called it a travesty of justice that the five southern states will be penalised for controlling population.
"Recently, the delimitation exercise concluded in J&K. Now, Jammu will have 43 seats and Kashmir will have 47 seats in the 90-member Vidhan Sabha. There's a strong possibility that the electoral process will commence by the end of this year in J&K," the Defence Minister said.
In response to media queries regarding the resolution, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said Pakistan has no locus standi to pronounce on or interfere in matters that were internal to India, including the Indian territories under Pakistan’s illegal and forcible occupation.
Abdullah said that the party's stand on the entire process of delimitation was crystal clear and the entire process was a smokescreen to draw a veil over the obscure agenda at work.
Satish Mahaldar of 'JK Peace Forum' alleged: "Even after the reorganisation of the state under the Jammu & Kashmir Reorganization Act, 2O19, it was mandatory for the Delimitation Commission to mention Assembly seats for the PoK, which has not been mentioned in the gazette. This has hurt the sentiments of the people of India, more so of J&K."
For the first time, nine Assembly Constituencies (ACs) have been reserved for the Scheduled Tribes, out of which, six are in Jammu region and three in Kashmir. The constitution of the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state had no provision for the reservation of seats for Scheduled Tribes in the Legislative Assembly.
Sethi said that while carving out constituencies and reserving them, uniform principles have been followed but even then there are some areas where aspirations of people are not met.
