The day after tomorrow (August 8), Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Vijay will hold a consultation meeting with Tamil Nadu Members of Parliament.
This has been arranged at 3 p.m. at the Kalaivanar Arangam in Chennai.
What’s the plan?
At present, the monsoon session is also underway in Parliament. The BJP government is trying to bring in the constituency delimitation bill in this session.
So, this meeting is being held to discuss this constituency delimitation bill. The impacts on Tamil Nadu are set to be discussed at this meeting.
Number of MPs from Tamil Nadu
In the Lok Sabha, Tamil Nadu has 22 DMK MPs, 9 Congress MPs, 2 MPs each from the Marxist Communist Party, the Communist Party of India, and Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi, and one MP each from the Muslim League and the MDMK.
In the Rajya Sabha, the DMK has 10 MPs, Congress has 3 MPs, the AIADMK has 2 MPs, the PMK has 1 MP, and the MDMK and DMDK have one MP each.
It is noteworthy that TVK has given up the one Rajya Sabha seat it was set to get and handed it over to Congress leader Praveen Chakravarthy.
Will this meeting be a success?
Before the last Tamil Nadu Assembly election, the DMK strongly opposed constituency delimitation. Then Chief Minister Stalin even burned copies of the proposal and staged a protest.
But now, the DMK has taken the position of “We will decide after the bill is introduced and we have looked at it.”
There are also talks that DMK-BJP alliance negotiations are underway.
The AIADMK has MPs only in the Rajya Sabha. Moreover, the AIADMK and the BJP are still in an alliance as of this moment.

So, it is not clear how the DMK is going to take this consultation meeting.
It is generally known that the Congress, Communist parties, and the MDMK will take the same stand against constituency delimitation.
However, what the stance of DMDK and PMK will be remains to be seen.
The fire sparked by the recent arrest of Opposition Leader Udhayanidhi Stalin has still not died down in Tamil Nadu’s political arena. At this time, how will the DMK view this consultative meeting? Questions have also arisen about whether this meeting will be effective.
