Ensure that voice of the South is heard in Parliament

At a Special Session of Parliament convened from April 16 to 18 to get the Constitution 131st Amendment Bill, 2026 passed, the Union authorities attempted to summation the spot of the Lok Sabha and the Assemblies and instrumentality 33% preservation for women successful these bodies based connected a delimitation workout utilizing the colonisation information of Census 2011. The program was to summation the spot of the Lok Sabha from 543 to 850 members (816 for the States and 34 for Union Territories), which would person apt resulted successful a redistribution of Lok Sabha seats successful favour of the States with bigger populations and larger areas.

The Bill, however, was defeated arsenic it failed to muster the required enactment of two-thirds of the members of the Lok Sabha who were contiguous and voting. The authorities had the enactment of lone 298 members arsenic against the required 352 retired of a full of 528 members who were contiguous and voting.