# DMK wants 25-year seat freeze, skips Vijay’s delimitation meet 2026-08-07T21:08:31+00:00 | Politics | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Only 21 of Tamil Nadu's 57 MPs attended Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay's all-party meeting on delimitation on Saturday, with the DMK and AIADMK staying away. The meeting passed a resolution opposing any change to the state's 39 Lok Sabha seats. Congress MP Karti Chidambaram said MPs want the House frozen at 543 seats. The DMK, which had previously burnt copies of the Delimitation Bill, is now privately signalling conditional support. The Federal reports the party will back the bill if the population-based seat freeze, pegged to the 1971 Census, is extended by 25 years. Alternatively, it wants a flat 50% increase in seats for all states. The DMK boycotted the meet saying the TVK had not clarified its own stand on delimitation. ## Coverage - thefederal.com - ndtv.com - hindustantimes.com - timesofindia.indiatimes.com - timesnownews.com Tags: BJP, Delimitation Bill, DMK, Lok Sabha, seat freeze, Tamil Nadu Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/dmk-signals-support-for-delimitation-bill-with-seat-freeze-condition/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/dmk-signals-support-for-delimitation-bill-with-seat-freeze-condition/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes.