India, April 12 -- Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin on Thursday alleged that the Centre is using women's reservation as a "weapon" to tackle the Opposition before taking up the delimitation exercise. Responding to it, the opposition parties in the state, BJP and AIADMK, said the CM should first clarify whether his party supports women's reservation or not.

"The Union government is not concerned about implementing reservations for women. If their concerns were genuine, they could have done it right away. Rather than doing that, the BJP-led Centre is thinking of using it as a weapon to tackle the opposition and take up the delimitation exercise based on population," Stalin told news agency PTI.

The DMK leader also said the women'...