Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has accused the Centre of using women's reservation as a 'weapon' to tackle the opposition before taking up the delimitation exercise.
Stalin alleged that the Centre is not genuinely concerned about implementing reservations for women and is instead using it as a tool to tackle the opposition.
The DMK leader demanded that the women's reservation be implemented immediately without portraying delimitation as a reason and also called for the delimitation to be frozen on the 1971 Census population for 'fairness'.
Opposition parties, BJP and AIADMK, responded to Stalin's comments by asking him to clarify whether his party supports women's reservation or not.
AIADMK national spokesperson Kovai Sathiya accused the DMK of playing cheap politics and said that Union Home Minister Amit Shah had clearly stated that there would be no effect on Tamil Nadu due to delimitation.
