Mumbai, Aug. 9 -- Breaking his silence with scathing precision, NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar on Sunday launched a fierce offensive against the ruling BJP, declaring that his party's MPs will fiercely oppose the controversial Delimitation Bill. Accusing the Centre of engineering a calculated blueprint since 2016 to fracture parliamentary and assembly constituencies for political survival, Pawar warned that the move spells a direct death knell for Indian democracy.
Dismissing any speculations regarding his political alignment, Pawar asserted that all party MPs will vote against the delimitation measure, regardless of any 50 per cent seat-expansion lures. He claimed that the legislation is a thinly veiled tactic to redraw assembly and parliamenta...