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50% straight increase, 13-9 to 59. How is it anti-South?

Even before at 543... But that's not mentioned in the bill.

No, no, no. Very clearly we have mentioned it's a straightforward 50% increase today

in the floor of the Parliament we have spoken.

But Mr. Annamalai, as you know, you've served in the IPS,

verbal assurances don't count in law.

The fact is that the draft of the bill which is being debated,

nowhere mentions the 50% formula.

It says that the seat allocation will be on the basis of the census.

No, no, no.

Very clearly a delimitation commission will be established.

The commission will establish the modalities about how it is going to be done.

Today we have gone one step further.

On the basis of the census.

Today we have...

The text is also being put. All the leaders have spoken.

No, but why is the text... Why, if that was the case,

why is that not there in the text of the bill?

No, you have to understand, I am not the law minister of this country.

You fully understand that unless something is put down on paper,

it does not count.

That will be done. Putting in paper will be done.

It is not that we are not saying nothing will be put on paper.

When?

When nothing is on paper, why is Mr. Stalin and others,

they are also putting the opposite facts now.

Because of the fact that...

Oh, Tamil Nadu from 39 will come down to 32.

Because...

It will come down to 21.

I'll explain why.

Then the North actually goes up from 38% to 43% overall weightage.

The South comes down from 24 to 20.

So the gap has doubled and Tamil Nadu loses 11 seats.

We have never mentioned...

Which is the biggest loss of any state.

We have never mentioned in the bill.

We have never...

If you see the manner in which the bill is brought,

in the middle of an assembly campaign,

without any distribution, circulation, discussion,

attempt to bulldoze it through,

you can see why opposition parties would not take this as good faith.