BJD nominates leaders for Joint Action Committee meeting on delimitation

Bhubaneswar, March 21: The Opposition BJD in Odisha has nominated two senior leaders to represent the party at the upcoming meeting of the Joint Action Committee (JAC) on delimitation, scheduled to be held in Chennai. 

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In a statement, the Naveen Patnaik-led BJD announced that former minister Sanjay Das Burma and former MP Amar Patnaik would attend the meeting, which will be convened by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Saturday.

On March 11, a two-member delegation from Tamil Nadu’s ruling DMK, consisting of TRB Rajaa and Dayanidhi Maran, met Odisha’s Leader of Opposition, Naveen Patnaik, to invite him to participate in the meeting on delimitation. The delegation also urged Patnaik to include the BJD, which has been in power in Odisha for 24 years, in the JAC in response to the Centre’s proposal for redrawing constituencies based solely on population.

The DMK has been engaging with leaders from various parties, including those within the NDA such as Chandrababu Naidu, to discuss the delimitation issue. In his effort to rally support, Stalin had previously written to the Chief Ministers of Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana, West Bengal, Punjab, and Odisha, inviting them to join the JAC for an “uncompromising fight” against the delimitation of Lok Sabha seats, which he referred to as an “unfair exercise.”

The inaugural JAC meeting is scheduled for March 22 in Chennai, with Stalin urging leaders to unite and chart a “collective course forward” on this crucial issue.