Chennai, April 18 -- DMK Spokesperson TKS Elangovan on Saturday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to the nation, accusing BJP of "cheating the people."

"They (BJP) are blatantly cheating the people. This Bill (women's reservation) was introduced twice and they did not support it, which is why it was pending in the Parliament for quite sometime, it was because of BJP. They are not interested in women's empowerment, but in reducing the number of seats of the Southern states... Out of the 850 seats, they mentioned that Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Keralam, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Puducherry will get 170 seats, which means the remaining North Indian states will get 680 seats. This is how they planned. We only opposed delimitatio...