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In what was a foregone conclusion, the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026 failed to unafraid the two-thirds majority required for a law amendment. While 298 members voted successful its favour and 230 against, the Bill needed 352 votes — two-thirds of the 528 contiguous and voting — to pass. The government subsequently shelved the companion Delimitation Bill and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, saying they could not beryllium viewed successful isolation. During his reply to the debate, Home Minister Amit Shah gave a verbal warrant that confederate States would spot their beingness successful an 816-member Lok Sabha summation successful the aforesaid proportionality arsenic their existent share, adjacent offering to adjourn the House for an hr to redraft the Bill with a 50% azygous summation arsenic an authoritative amendment.

A agreed Opposition connected Friday (April 17, 2026) defeated the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026, which sought to redistribute Lok Sabha seats connected the ground of the 2011 Census to expedite the implementation of women’s reservation.