Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan Friday expressed his support and solidarity with the conference being organised by his Tamil Nadu counterpart and DMK supremo, M K Stalin, in Chennai against the "unilateral parliamentary constituency delimitation attempt" by the BJP-led central government.
Congress-ruled Telangana and Karnataka governments, opposition BRS in Telangana, former Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik’s BJD, and former Andhra Pradesh CM Jagan Mohan Reddy’s YSRCP had earlier confirmed their participation in a meeting convened by Stalin on March 22. Kerala had kept silent and was seen as wavering.
But now Kerala too has joined the group that is seen as the coming together of political parties in the South and a show of Opposition unity against ‘delimitation’. Few analysts have also described the move as the first baby steps in a south vs north tussle and Stalin appears to be emerging as the voice that binds the non-BJP parties on the issue.
Pinarayi Friday issued a statement titled "Constituency Delimitation: Unity Against the Unilateral Move", after Tamil Nadu IT Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan and MP Dr Tamizhachi Thangapandian personally met him to extend Stalin’s invitation for the conference.
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