<p>Nagapattinam (Tamil Nadu): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/m-k-stalin">M K Stalin</a> on Monday favoured young people having children immediately following marriage and said a higher population appeared to be the criterion to get more MPs.</p>.<p>Addressing a wedding, Stalin, also the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/dmk">DMK</a> president said that years ago, newly weds were advised to not have children immediately following marriage.</p>.<p>However, the same thing must not be advised now and also there was no need for that. It is because a situation has now arisen, according to which only a higher population would ensure more MPs as the delimitation exercise would be on the basis of population, Stalin said. <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/tamil-nadu">Tamil Nadu</a> paid attention to population control and succeeded and that was the reason for the state's plight today, he added.</p>.<p>"I will not tell you to not have children hastily, have children immediately; but give them beautiful Tamil names," he said, directly appealing to the bride and bridegroom.</p>.Language and Delimitation two critical challenges confronting Tamil Nadu: Stalin.<p>Further, he said that the question of delimitation is related to Tamil Nadu's rights and protecting its interests and hence, the matter must not be evaluated politically.</p>.<p>The union government is planning to implement the three-language policy through compulsion and similarly in the delimitation exercise, it is attempting to cut down the number of seats for Tamil Nadu, Stalin alleged, addressing the function here.</p>.<p>Against this background an all party meeting has been organised on March 5 on the proposed delimitation exercise and most parties out of 40 have confirmed their participation and a few others have said they would not be taking part. Appealing to such parties, the chief minister said they should not evaluate the issue through the prism of politics.</p>.<p>BJP and former Union Minister G K Vaasan led TMC (Moopanar) were the key parties that have said they would not take part in the meeting. "I would like to appeal to them, please give a thought to it, this is not an issue between the DMK and your party." </p>.<p>The issue is all about Tamil Nadu and its interests and rights and hence parties that have declared that they would not take part should also participate, he appealed.</p>
<p>Nagapattinam (Tamil Nadu): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/m-k-stalin">M K Stalin</a> on Monday favoured young people having children immediately following marriage and said a higher population appeared to be the criterion to get more MPs.</p>.<p>Addressing a wedding, Stalin, also the <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/dmk">DMK</a> president said that years ago, newly weds were advised to not have children immediately following marriage.</p>.<p>However, the same thing must not be advised now and also there was no need for that. It is because a situation has now arisen, according to which only a higher population would ensure more MPs as the delimitation exercise would be on the basis of population, Stalin said. <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/tamil-nadu">Tamil Nadu</a> paid attention to population control and succeeded and that was the reason for the state's plight today, he added.</p>.<p>"I will not tell you to not have children hastily, have children immediately; but give them beautiful Tamil names," he said, directly appealing to the bride and bridegroom.</p>.Language and Delimitation two critical challenges confronting Tamil Nadu: Stalin.<p>Further, he said that the question of delimitation is related to Tamil Nadu's rights and protecting its interests and hence, the matter must not be evaluated politically.</p>.<p>The union government is planning to implement the three-language policy through compulsion and similarly in the delimitation exercise, it is attempting to cut down the number of seats for Tamil Nadu, Stalin alleged, addressing the function here.</p>.<p>Against this background an all party meeting has been organised on March 5 on the proposed delimitation exercise and most parties out of 40 have confirmed their participation and a few others have said they would not be taking part. Appealing to such parties, the chief minister said they should not evaluate the issue through the prism of politics.</p>.<p>BJP and former Union Minister G K Vaasan led TMC (Moopanar) were the key parties that have said they would not take part in the meeting. "I would like to appeal to them, please give a thought to it, this is not an issue between the DMK and your party." </p>.<p>The issue is all about Tamil Nadu and its interests and rights and hence parties that have declared that they would not take part should also participate, he appealed.</p>