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'Smells of politics': Priyanka Gandhi targets PM Modi over women's quota bill, says delimitation plan 'attack on democracy'
Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra led the Opposition's floor arguments in Lok Sabha against the government's Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026, calli...
'Our country all set to take historic step towards women's empowerment': PM Modi ahead of special Parliament sitting
Ahead of the special Parliament session where the 131st Constitutional Amendment Bill and Delimitation Bill were to be introduced, Prime Minister Modi descri...
Lok Sabha seats in five southern states to increase to 195 from 129, clarifies Amit Shah
The Home Minister formally clarified in the special Parliament session that the five southern states — Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Tel...
'False narrative': Amit Shah rejects claims delimitation will weaken southern states
During a Parliament special session on April 16, 2026, the Home Minister rebutted claims that southern states would see reduced representation following Lok ...
Watch: Delimitation row erupts in Parliament: What happened? | Above the Fold | 16.04.2026
A special three-day Parliament session (April 16–18, 2026) was convened specifically to introduce and deliberate on three linked bills: the Constitution (131...
Patnaik writes to Odisha MPs, seeks decoupling of women quota bill from delimitation process
BJD chief Naveen Patnaik wrote to all Odisha MPs — across party lines — urging them to jointly oppose the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026, which li...
New Delimitation Bill 2026: What it means and its key proposals
The Delimitation Bill, 2026 was introduced in Lok Sabha on April 16 as part of a three-bill package alongside the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill and the...
Numbers not in favour of NDA to get women quota law passed in Parliament
The ruling NDA coalition does not have the requisite two-thirds majority in either the Lok Sabha or the Rajya Sabha to pass the Constitution amendment bill t...
'Political demonetisation': Tharoor slams Centre for linking women’s reservation with delimitation
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor argued strongly for delinking women's reservation from the delimitation process, urging the government to implement the 33% quota ...
If Chankaya was alive, he would've been startled by your political shrewdness: Priyanka to Shah
During the Lok Sabha debate on the three bills, a Congress MP contested the government's narrative that it was the driving force behind women's reservation, ...
Women's Reservation Rollout by 2029: Arunachal CM Pema Khandu flags April 16–18 special session
Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu endorsed the special Parliament session (April 16–18, 2026), calling the women's reservation bill "transformativ...
'My guarantee': PM Modi says no state to face injustice due to delimitation
Prime Minister Narendra Modi intervened in the Lok Sabha debate on the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026 to personally guarantee that no state — nort...
The South after delimitation: What the maths shows from Tamil Nadu to Andhra
Parliament debated proposed legislation to expand the Lok Sabha from 543 to 816 elected seats (ceiling of 850), alongside a Women's Reservation Bill linking ...
Women's reservation & delimitation bills tabled: India braces for 850-seat Lok Sabha future
Parliament began a special session on April 16, 2026 with three interlocking bills tabled together: the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, the Delimitation...
True intent of bills brought by govt mischievous, have to be rejected completely: Congress
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh stated: "The true intent of these Bills is mischievous, their content devious, and their damage enormous. They have to be rejec...
Delimitation provisions in women's reservation amendment bill 'attack on democracy': Kerala Oppn
Opposition leaders from Kerala, including Congress leaders and CPI representatives, strongly criticised the decision to link women's reservation to delimitat...
DMK flags delimitation concerns as Kanimozhi moves motion against three bills amid delimitation row
DMK Parliamentary Party leader Kanimozhi Karunanidhi moved a formal motion in the Lok Sabha opposing the introduction of three government bills: the Constitu...
Delimitation: What’s different this time and why it’s kicking up a row
The Union government's proposed 2026 delimitation exercise is qualitatively different from all previous exercises: it proposes to simultaneously increase tot...
Amid firestorm over delimitation, Bengal, TN polls, why Parliament should rise to clear women’s quota
Amid the intense political controversy over the delimitation provisions in the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill 2026, analysis and commentary examined whe...
Will Chhattisgarh be next to adopt UCC? Panel ready to meet public and experts
The Chhattisgarh government has constituted a high-level committee to examine the feasibility of implementing a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the state, follow...