Chennai, April 9 -- Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Thursday strongly opposed the proposed delimitation process to increase the number of seats in the Lok Sabha, calling it "reengineering of power."

In an X post, Stalin claimed that if delimitation, for implementation of 33 per cent reservation for women in Parliament through Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, takes place on the basis of the 2011 census, it would nearly double the seats of north Indian states, while south Indian states' share makes up for about 24 per cent of the Lok Sabha.

He clarified that the DMK is not against women's reservation in the Lok Sabha, but demanded that the law should be implemented without increasing the seats in the House.

The Tamil Nadu CM wrote, "...