Southern States’ combined representation will increase from 23.76% to 23.90% in LS after delimitation, says Anurag Thakur

BJP person and erstwhile Minister Anurag Thakur connected Sunday (April 19, 2026) sought to dismantle the Opposition’s charges that delimitation would punish and wounded confederate States arsenic a “false narrative” and “manufactured crisis” by the DMK and Congress.

Addressing a property league successful Bengaluru, helium explained that nether the Narendra Modi Government’s projected “50% formula”, each azygous confederate State would summation much seats than adjacent a 2011 Census projection would person provided. “For example, Tamil Nadu’s existent 39 Lok Sabha seats would leap to 59 (ten much than the 2011 Census projection), Kerala’s tally would summation from 20 to 30 bonus seats, and Karnataka would determination from 28 to 42 seats. Andhra Pradesh would summation from 25 to 37 seats, and Telangana from 17 to 25 seats,” helium said.