Telangana Congress delimitation panel to consult legal experts, review past reports; leaders ask for representation

HYDERABAD: The first meeting of the delimitation committee of the Telangana Congress on Monday decided to consult legal and constitutional experts. They will also study the reports of previous delimitation commissions, based on which a report will be prepared to ensure that injustice is not done to Telangana and other southern states.The present delimitation of parliamentary constituencies within states was done on the basis of the 2001 Census, under the provisions of the Delimitation Act, 2002. However, the Constitution was specifically amended in 2002 not to have interstate delimitation of constituencies till the "first census conducted after the year 2026". Thus, the present constituencies carved out on the basis of the 2001 Census would continue to be in operation till then.The TPCC delimitation committee meeting was attended by its chairman and CWC special invitee Ch Vamshi Chand Reddy and its members, AICC in charge Meenakshi Natarajan and Telangana Congress president B Mahesh Kumar Goud. They discussed the formulae adopted by the previous delimitation commissions and decided to study them in detail.After this meeting, a delegation of the Yadav community leaders met Meenakshi and Mahesh Goud and urged them to provide adequate representation to Yadav and Kurma communities in the ensuing panchayat, MPTC, and ZPTC elections, and also a berth to one of the communities in the cabinet, where three vacancies still exist.

The TPCC chief spoke to the concerned minister and assured them that their request for a cabinet berth would be sent to the AICC leadership. He also assured them that Yadava and Kurma community members would be given opportunities to contest in the forthcoming rural local body polls, but based on the winning prospects of the candidates and their contribution to strengthening the party at the grassroots levels.Later, Meenakshi addressed a meeting of party leaders on ‘Jai Bapu, Jai Bheem, and Samvidhan Bachao’ programmes to be taken up in the state.