New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor Friday termed the proposed delimitation process as “political demonetization” and criticized the Center for linking the implementation of women’s reservation to the expansion of Parliament and redefinition of constituencies based on census.Participating in the debate in the Lok Sabha on three bills related to amendment of the Women’s Reservation Act and setting up of the Delimitation Commission, Tharoor said the government has unnecessarily linked the widely supported reform to a highly contentious political process.Tharoor said, “Delimitation will become political demonetisation. Don’t do that.”She said there was almost unanimous political support across parties for women’s reservation and argued that the measure should be implemented immediately without relying on delimitations.He said, “Today we stand at the threshold where there is almost unanimous political consensus in favor of women’s reservation. Every major party realizes that the time of symbolism is over and the era of mass participation must begin and yet I find myself deeply troubled by the legislative exercise before us.”Tharoor mentioned the Prime Minister Narendra ModiComments supported women’s representation, but said the proposal was burdened with unnecessary conditions.He asked, “The Prime Minister says he has brought the gift of justice ‘Nari Shakti’, but he has wrapped it in barbed wire, linking the implementation of women’s reservation to the expansion of Parliament, 2011 census data and the delimitation process… Why should we confuse a moral imperative with a demographic sphere?”She said that women’s reservation is ready to be implemented on the basis of existing parliamentary strength and there is no need to wait for future reorganization of constituencies.“Women’s reservation is ripe for the harvest and should be implemented immediately on the basis of existing parliamentary strength,” she said.Warning of wider political implications of redrawing of constituencies, Tharoor said delimitation is not just an administrative process but a change in the balance of political power.“Delimitation is not just a bureaucratic rearrangement of maps, it is a profound shift in political power that is intended to…any The delimitation process is fraught with complexities that can tear apart the fabric of our federalism,” he said.He also criticized the speed with which the government was pushing the legislation and compared it to the hasty move of demonetisation.He said, “You have proposed delimitation with such haste, the same haste that you showed on demonetisation. Unfortunately, we all know how much loss this caused to the country. Delimitation will become political demonetization. Don’t do that,” Tharoor said.Tharoor said the opposition supports the principle of women’s reservation but believes it should not be made dependent on the future delimitation process. She called for wide-ranging discussions with all political parties, saying that both women’s representation and delimitation had a significant impact on India’s electoral structure and federal balance.The debate took place after the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, aimed at amending the women’s quota law, was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Thursday following a division of votes.Two additional general bills, the Delimitation Bill and the Union Territory Laws (Amendment) Bill, were also introduced to facilitate the implementation of the proposed amended women’s quota law in the Union Territories of Delhi, Puducherry and Jammu and Kashmir.