Around 21 MPs from Tamil Nadu attended the meeting, while the DMK, AIADMK and some of their alliance partners stayed away. This is an issue that concerns Tamil Nadu's rights and Tamil Nadu's representation in the Parliament of India. "We want the Parliament to be frozen at 543 and Tamil Nadu's representation to be guaranteed at 39," he said. Congress MP Praveen Chakraborty criticised the absence of the two major Dravidian parties, pointing out their long history of governing Tamil Nadu. "Our demand is very clear: we do not want any change either in the total number of seats or in the share of Tamil Nadu's seats.