CHENNAI, April 9 -- Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin on Wednesday demanded a fair delimitation for the southern states, warning that his state would not accept any decision taken by the Centre without its consent.

In a post on X titled, "Delimitation Danger: Is India sliding into dictatorship", the DMK chief said, "Do not turn a calm South into a storm".

Stalin posed a series of questions to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "Why is the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union government shrouding the entire delimitation process in secrecy instead of coming clean on how it intends to carry it out," he asked

He pointed out that the late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee deferred delimitation in 2001 for 25 years in the national interest....