BRS Working President and former minister KT Rama Rao has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to act like a `Big Brother’ instead of a `Big Boss’. He suggested that he should not dominate small states and southern states like Big Boss. Speaking at a journalism talk show held in Jaipur on Sunday, KTR demanded that the current MP seats should be continued as they are.
In a democracy, he said that the MLAs were the first ones available to the people. That is why, he said that his party’s opinion is to increase the MLA seats. If the Prime Minister has to be decided by North India.. tomorrow, he fears that the government will decide in favor of the interests of that region but will not take the views of South India into consideration.
However, KTR made it clear that they do not believe the words of the BJP government at the Center that injustice will not be done to the South in the delimitation of constituencies. Because in the AP Reorganization Act, he recalled they said that they would increase the MLA seats in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. But they have not done so yet.
But before anyone asked, he wondered if they increased the assembly seats in Jammu and Kashmir and Assam for their political interests. Wherever the Indian government had promised and the Parliament had made a law as a witness, he deplored that the MLA seats were not increased. He alleges that the BJP government at the Center only works according to its political interests and goals.
Moreover, KTR asserted that the delimitation of parliamentary constituencies should not be based on population. He said that the southern states followed population control as per the orders of the Center, but the northern states, which did not follow population control, are now doing well in terms of population.
He alleged that if the delimitation of parliamentary constituencies is done based on population, the undemocratic status of the northern states will increase.
KTR warned that this is very dangerous for India and that it will be a great injustice to the southern states. He expressed concern about the attempts to force Hindi on the people of the country.
“Why is Hindi being forcibly pushed in the South? In a country where India is unity in diversity, it is not appropriate to say that everyone has to learn Hindi. The Center is allocating crores of rupees for the promotion of Hindi. Why can’t funds be provided for Telugu?” he asked.
