India, April 17 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said in the Lok Sabha on Friday that delimitation, or redrawing of constituencies, has been proposed by the government in haste, "the same haste that you showed on demonetisation".

"And unfortunately, we all know what damage that (demonetisation) did to the country. Delimitation will turn out to be political demonetisation," said the Kerala MP, referring to the demonetisation of high-denomination notes by PM Narendra Modi's government in November 2016.

"Don't do it," Tharoor said.

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He also pointed out that the laws being proposed simply speak of census-based reallocation of seats. That would mean the southern states like Kerala could have a lower share o...