Dharmapuri/Salem: Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin said that Tamil Nadu was facing a `grave danger’ of people becoming second class citizens in their own land because of BJP’s move to pass the delimitation bill.Campaigning for Secular Progressive Alliance (SPA) candidates in Dharmapuri district on Wednesday, Stalin said TN should continue to fight until BJP relents. “We should not give up our fight. We should strike until Delhi gives up,” Stalin said. The ‘blows delivered through elections’ should force the ‘arrogant’ BJP to mend its ways, he said. Stalin said if the delimitation bill was passed the voice of TN MPs would become irrelevant. “Our voice would lose its strength in parliament. If our MPs lose their power, will we get any projects? We cannot expect a prime Minister emerging from southern states,” he said.“Above all there is the danger of people becoming second class citizens. Can we allow that?” he asked.Stalin called upon the people to register their opposition to the delimitation bill by hoisting black flags in their houses. “Meanwhile, our MPs would be holding a protest in parliament. If we fail to raise our voice now, we will never find respect for our words ever,” he said.Later in the day, Stalin led a march of women cadres in Salem, along with alliance leaders including Kamal Haasan (MNM) and Premallatha Vijayakant (DMDK).The march, attended by scores of women cadres, was to send the signal that DMK opposed the delimitation bill but not the reservation for women. At the end of the march that stretched for about three kilometres from Anna Park to the Fort area, Stalin called the delimitation bill a ‘black law.’ He flayed BJP for linking women’s reservation and “constituency delimitation.”He attacked AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami for not opposing the delimitation bill and demanded that he “speak out against the BJP at least once.”Meanwhile, he praised PMK founder S Ramadoss, hitting out at PMK president Anbumani Ramadoss.
