Divya Delhi:  The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) Joint Action Committee (JAC) meeting on 22 March to discuss Lok Sabha and state assembly seat delimitation seems like a hypocritical divided house. Two things strike out: Congress' strange duplicity and the DMK's unusual timing in raising delimitation. Seven Chief Ministers and 29 political groups have been invited to the JAC, which opposes population-based delimitation since it would deprive Southern states their rights and punish them for curbing population growth. Rahul Gandhi's staunch support for Jitni Abadi, Utna Haq—population-based rights—could not be more contrary to the JAC's delimitation position. In October 2023, PM Modi claimed that the Congress was deceiving the Southern states and doing them a harm by not giving them more parliamentary seats following delimitation. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said population-based delimitation is social injustice for the South. Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party's contradictory positions show their opportunism. This JAC is a good place for the DMK and other parties to criticize Congress's obvious discrepancy. Rahul Gandhi says Daro Mat—fear not. The DMK should ask him to clarify his position on population-proportional rights in delimitation. The Congress government froze Lok Sabha seats and deferred delimitation for 25 years until the 2001 Census under the 42nd Amendment to the Constitution during the 1976 Emergency, citing family planning measures. In 2002, the Vajpayee-led NDA government, which included the DMK, passed the 84th Constitutional Amendment, freezing Lok Sabha seats and delaying delimitation until the first Census after 2026.