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Delimitation

Revamp functioning of Parliament

The jointly introduced Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill and the Delimitation Bill, 2026, provide for increasing the strength of the Lok Sabha from 550 to 850 members

Atharva Deshmukh, Mehul Chhabra

Next panchayat election only after the delimitation: Samrat Choudhary

Odisha revises schedule for ward delimitation, seat reservation ahead of urban local body polls

The Hindu Bureau

The crucial Uttar Pradesh test of the BJP’s hegemony

Monsoon Session on ‘ventilator’ as Shah seeks two-thirds majority for Delimitation Bills: Congress

The Hindu Bureau

About Topic

Delimitation is the process of reallocating the number of seats in Parliament per State, based on recent census data. Opposition parties have raised concerns that several States are set to lose their relative strength when the composition of the Lok Sabha is reapportioned among States according to 2011 Census figures. The Centre, however, has dismissed such claims.

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On August 13, both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha were adjourned sine die, bringing Parliament’s Monsoon Session to a close. File

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‘543 has served India for more than half a century and there is a strong constitutional, federal and democratic case for letting this number remain’

Why 543 should remain 543

Congress president and Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, speaking to mediapersons in Kalaburagi Airport on August 27, 2026.

Congress chief urges PM Modi to share delimitation plan, freeze Lok Sabha strength at 543

Three MPs accuse NDA of trying to retain power through delimitation and oppose FCRA Bill

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“Our goal is not “fair delimitation”, but “freeze delimitation”, Minister for Public Works Aadhav Arjuna said in the Assembly on Friday (August 21, 2026).

Aadhav Arjuna clarifies the Tamil Nadu government’s stand on delimitation

The Hindu Bureau

Delimitation means the process of fixing the number of seats and boundaries of the territorial constituencies in each State for the Lok Sabha and Legislative Assemblies.

The federal dilemma of delimitation

Congress MP Praveen Chakravarty in conversation with The Hindu

A uniform 50% increase in Lok Sabha seats is pulling the wool over someone’s eyes: Praveen Chakravarty

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A resolution seeking to freeze Lok Sabha seats at 543 was adopted in the Tamil Nadu Assembly on Wednesday

Delimitation: Tamil Nadu Assembly adopts resolution to freeze Lok Sabha seats at 543

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay is flanked by his Cabinet colleagues N. Anand (left) and Aadhav Arjuna during their meeting on delimitation with Tamil Nadu MPs in Chennai on August 8, 2026.

Tamil Nadu’s delimitation conundrum

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Case for consensus: On delimitation

AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami.

AIADMK defends its absence in the meet on delimitation

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Union Minister Kiren Rijiju. File

Rahul, Rijiju spar over linking delimitation to women’s quota law

DMK general secretary Duraimurugan. File

DMK MPs to attend meeting on delimitation if govt. convenes all-party meet on Mekedatu

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DMK president and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin. The DMK wants a freeze based on the 1976 amendment to the Constitution to remain for another 25 years while amending it to introduce a 50% blanket increase in the Lok Sabha seats for all States. File

DMK lays down conditions to support delimitation Bill

Sandeep Phukan,Sobhana K. Nair

‘For years, Bankipur represented an ideal laboratory for the BJP’s twin strategy of caste and religious consolidation. Yet the party’s defeat at the hands of Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor suggests that these assumptions may no longer hold automatically’

Delimitation may be less attractive for BJP now

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Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K.T. Rama Rao at a protest organised at Dharna Chowk in Hyderabad on Friday, July 24, 2026.

Unwise to link women’s quota with delimitation: K.T. Rama Rao

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