TRS chief K Kavitha on Delimitation Bill: “Every state should have fixed number of representatives”
He added that his (newly formed) party will focus 95 per cent of its work on the development and welfare of the state in Telangana and internally.
“My party will be a very introverted party. 95 per cent of the work will be about Telangana and the development and prosperity of Telangana at home. But there will be some issues where we will have to work with the union government to make sure that our people are safe and policies made at the union level will have to not affect our states… I have a very important proposal on delimitation. I will also write to the Prime Minister. The proposal is that the number of MPs in the Lok Sabha should increase. It should be divided according to population. Each state should have a fixed number of representatives in the Rajya Sabha. Each state has equal voting rights.” must have.” Kavitha said at a press conference on Saturday.
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This came after Opposition parties voted against the Constitution Amendment Bill on April 17 in a three-day special session in the Lok Sabha. The Lok Sabha took up the Constitution (One Hundred and Thirty-First Amendment) Bill, the Delimitation Bill and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill for passage together.
Following the discussion of the three bills, 298 members voted in favor and 230 members voted against the Constitutional Amendment Bill.
The bills aimed to implement the 2011 census-based delimitation to operationalize Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, 2023 and provide one-third reserved seats for women in the Lok Sabha and state legislatures. The opposition supported the women’s reservation while criticizing the delimitation exercise.Also read | Three years later, Manipur remains tense due to ongoing violence
Earlier, on April 30, the Election Commission had officially named the new political party founded by K Kavitha as Telangana Rakshana Sena (TRS). The approval was officially confirmed by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar.
At the launch of the party, Kavitha announced Telangana Rashtra Sena as the proposed name for the party, ECI approved Telangana Rakshana Sena, retaining the initials TRS. His father and former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao had also founded the Telangana Rashtra Samithi-‘TRS’ before renaming the party as Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS).
K Kavitha launched her party at the Advaya Convention in Medchal on April 25. The move comes seven months after he parted ways with BRS.
