Congress counters Naidu, says promise of 50% increase in Lok Sabha seats was not part of Delimitation Bill

Reacting to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu’s comments criticising the Opposition for not backing the Delimitation Bill contempt the government’s assurance that the spot of each State successful the Lok Sabha would summation by 50%, the Congress pointed retired that nary specified amendment was ever moved by the government.

In a station quoting Mr. Naidu’s interrogation to a daily, Congress General Secretary (Communications) Jairam Ramesh said the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister was being “unfair” to the Opposition. He added that connected April 16, the TDP had suggested an amendment to the Delimitation Bill, proposing a broad 50% summation successful the Lok Sabha seats for each States portion maintaining the existent proportionality.

Mr. Ramesh said successful a station connected X, “But the super-confident, super-arrogant Union Home Minister ne'er really moved specified an amendment that the TDP was asking for. That is the REAL question—what devious games was the self-declared Chanakya—who stood brutally exposed connected the evening of April 17, 2026—playing?”

Mr. Naidu was quoted arsenic saying that the volition of the authorities was wide from the opening and that it had stated connected the level of the House that determination would beryllium a 50% summation successful seats crossed States without altering the proportionality of seats. He said it was lone an omission from the substance of the Bill and that the Opposition had unnecessarily made it an issue.

Mr. Ramesh besides took a excavation astatine the TDP, pointing retired that the Andhra Pradesh-based enactment is nary longer the biggest NDA ally. “Now the TDP has been overshadowed by an obscure Nationalist Citizen Party of India,” helium said.