Chennai, April 6 -- Accusing the BJP-led government at the Centre of being hellbent on reducing the strength of Tamil Nadu in the name of delimitation, Chief Minister and DMK President M K Stalin on Sunday demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should allay the fears and promise that no Parliamentary seats would be reduced under the exercise.

Mr Modi should allay the genuine fears of the people on the proposed delimitation exercise and make a promise from this TN soil that there would no seat reduction in the State and also in Southern States, which has effectively implemented population control measures, he said, after launching various welfare measures and inaugurating new government hospitals at Udhagamandalam in the Nilgiris dis...