Polity & Governance
Constitutional bodies, Parliament, judiciary and governance reforms
Call all-party meeting to evolve consensus on women’s reservation: K.C. Venugopal
Opposition parties collectively wrote to the Prime Minister demanding an all-party meeting to evolve national consensus before any Women's Reservation Bill w...
South's LS seats, political weight to rise: Govt
The Union government assured Parliament on April 16, 2026, that southern states' Lok Sabha representation and political weight will increase under the propos...
‘If respected… wouldn’t use women politically,’ Priyanka Gandhi targets PM over Women’s Quota Bill
Parliament's special session saw sharp exchanges over the Women's Reservation Act, with opposition leaders questioning whether the government intends genuine...
From torn Bills, ‘parkati mahila’ jibe to 454 ayes: The long, turbulent road to women’s reservation
The Women's Reservation Act 2023 (106th Constitutional Amendment) represents the culmination of a 27-year legislative struggle that saw multiple bills introd...
Women’s reservation: How numbers stack up in Parliament
As Parliament debates the 131st Amendment and Delimitation Bill to operationalise women's reservation, data on current and projected women's representation p...
Muslim quota demand sets off clash in Lok Sabha as women’s reservation, delimitation Bills are introduced
During the special parliamentary session introducing the Women's Reservation and Delimitation Bills, members from several parties demanded the inclusion of a...
Pass the Bill, or women of India won’t forgive: PM to Parliament
The Prime Minister made an appeal to Parliament urging the passage of the Women's Reservation Bill, declaring that the women of India would not forgive lawma...
Black flags, burning ‘Bills’: Why Stalin casts delimitation protest as reigniting ‘flames of resistance’ in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin led a dramatic statewide protest on April 16, 2026, hours before the Centre tabled the Delimitation Bill in Parliament,...
Why SP demanded quota for Muslim women despite Constitution hurdle
The Samajwadi Party (SP) demanded, during parliamentary debate on the Women's Reservation Act, that Muslim women be included in a dedicated sub-quota within ...
‘Delimitation won’t reduce South’s share in Lok Sabha’: Amit Shah breaks down the numbers
The Home Minister used a detailed numerical breakdown in Parliament to argue that the 816-seat Lok Sabha proposal would not reduce the South's share of seats...
Parliament special sitting LIVE updates: Representation of southern states will go up, says Amit Shah as he rebuts Priyanka Gandhi
Union Home Minister Amit Shah addressed Parliament during the special sitting to rebut the opposition's "south losing seats" narrative on delimitation. Shah ...
Delimitation Bill violates federalism, denies states with low population fair share: Owaisi
AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi, speaking in Lok Sabha on April 16, 2026, alleged that the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026 violates the basic structu...
Meghwal introduces 3 Bills to advance women’s quota to 2029, says states’ share in expanded Lok Sabha won’t change
Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal introduced three major Bills in the Lok Sabha during the special parliamentary session: (i) the Constitution (131st Amen...
As Lok Sabha discusses women’s quota, two Rajya Sabha women MPs weigh in: ‘There is a hidden intent’, ‘No question of seats being reduced’
During the Lok Sabha's consideration of the Women's Reservation Bill in 2023, women members of the Rajya Sabha offered perspectives on what parliamentary res...
Priyanka, Akhilesh lead Opposition onslaught: Govt using women quota to push delimitation, change electoral map
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra led a coordinated Opposition challenge in the Lok Sabha, arguing that the government was using ...
Meghalaya approves Khasi, Garo as official state languages alongside English
On April 16, 2026, the Meghalaya Cabinet approved the Meghalaya Official Languages Ordinance, 2026, declaring Khasi and Garo as official state languages alon...
Will delaying the Census affect its implementation?
India's 16th decennial Census — originally due in 2021 — was repeatedly postponed, first due to COVID-19, then administrative factors, making it the longest ...
Is the delimitation question settled?
As Parliament took up the three delimitation-related bills in a special session, a fundamental analytical question emerged: Is the constitutional case for pr...
Delimitation: Perspectives and viewpoints
As India's 16th Census gets underway in 2026, the question of delimitation — the redrawing of parliamentary and assembly constituency boundaries based on pop...
Any further delay in Census taking is perilous
A recent editorial argued that any further delay in conducting India's long-overdue population census carries perilous consequences for governance, welfare d...