Lok Sabha Introduces 131st Amendment & Delimitation Bills to Expand House for 33% Women’s Quota

India last redrew parliamentary boundaries in 1976, when Indira Gandhi froze delimitation to protect southern states that curbed population growth; the present push ends that 50-year truce much as the 1935 Government of India Act up-scaled provincial legislatures before the 1937 elections. Linking women’s quota—first promised in the 1996 Geeta Mukherjee Committee and partially realised in 1993 panchayat reservations—to a seat surge lets the Centre claim reform while shifting the balance of seats northward, a long-running demographic inevitability. Critics recall J-&-K’s 2022 delimitation, alleging partisan gerrymandering; supporters counter that a flat 50 % boost limits population-based gains. Whichever side prevails, this vote cracks open the post-1976 bargain and tests federal equity. Over a century, it could realign parliamentary power the way the 1956 States Reorganisation Act reshaped the map, defining who governs an India that will soon host one-fifth of humanity.