Govt's proposed delimitation 'extremely dangerous', 'assault' on Constitution: Sonia Gandhi

NEW DELHI: (Apr 13) Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Monday asserted the real issue with the government's move to bring bills in a special sitting of Parliament this week is delimitation, not women's reservation, and claimed the reported delimitation proposal is "extremely dangerous" as well as an "assault" on the Constitution itself.

Gandhi stressed that any delimitation involving an increase in the strength of the Lok Sabha must be politically, and not just arithmetically, equitable.

In an article published in The Hindu, she also alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's real intention now is to further "delay and derail" the caste census.