Revanth alleges BJP push for delimitation to boost seats in Assembly, Parliament
Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah of plotting to redraw India’s political map through delimitation to consolidate power. He claimed the proposed Bills would increase Telangana’s Lok Sabha seats from 17 to 26 and Assembly seats from 119 to 182.
Khammam: Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has accused the BJP government at the Centre of pushing for redrawing India’s political map by hook or by crook to come to power again.
Referring to the developments at the Centre, he alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah have been plotting to divide former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress as well as Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
In addition, he said they were forcing other parties to fall in line to get required strength to get the Delimitation Bill 2026 and its associated Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill 2026 passed in the Parliament to increase the seats in Parliament, he said.
Stating that the Modi-Shah duo would succeed in their evil designs, the Chief Minister claimed that the existing 17 Parliament seats in Telangana would be increased to 26 while the number of Assembly seats would be increased to 182 from the existing 119 by the time the next Assembly elections were held, if the Bills were passed.
Coining a slogan ‘Aur ek bar Congress sarkar’ Revanth Reddy claimed that the Congress would win 117 seats of the 182 seats to come to power in the State for the second time while referring to a prediction he made at a meeting in Khammam three years ago that Congress would win 65 seats in 2023 elections.
Addressing a Rythu Ashirwada Sabha at Jagannadhapuram in Khammam on Friday, he stated that the next Assembly elections would be held in May-June, 2029 not in December 2028. The Congress ministers and leaders would work for 18 hours a day to come to power again to establish Ramarajyam in the State, he said while taking oath on Bhadradri Ramachandra Swamy.
Revanth Reddy said that he would go to New Delhi July 20 to meet the AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge and its leader Rahul Gandhi to assure Rahul Gandhi that Telangana people were prepared to make him Prime Minister by electing the party candidates in 20 Lok Sabha seats in Telangana in the next elections.
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister, Deputy Chief Minister and other Ministers tried to present a show of camaraderie during the public meeting despite their alleged undercurrent differences among them.
