Chennai, April 4 -- Reiterating his demand for a truly fair delimitation, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK President M K Stalin on Friday said the population surge in North should not be used as a political weapon to silence South.

He said delimitation based on current population was a crude metric that punishes the great efforts of states towards National demographic goals and undermines federal fairness.

In a post on X, Mr Stalin wrote "The North's population surge cannot be used as a political weapon to silence the South."

"Delimitation based on current population is a crude metric that punishes our great efforts towards national demographic goals and undermines federal fairness", he said.

He also cited an article in a newspaper a...