Newsinc24 Team 
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, speaking during the debate in parliament on the women's reservation bill in Lok Sabha on Thursday evening said, "I want to tell Priyanka Gandhi that we have not made any changes to the Delimitation Commission. We have replicated your Delimitation Commission Act. If you have tampered with it, I can say that we will not do so."
#WATCH | Speaking in the Lok Sabha on women's reservation and delimitation, Union Home Minister Amit Shah says, "There was mention of the Delimitation Commission, saying that you will put your people in the Delimitation Commission and they will do this and that. I want to tell… pic.twitter.com/kX31EDgVm9
— ANI (@ANI) April 16, 2026
Shah also said the southern states are spinning a false narrative on delimitation and presented data. Shah said Tamil Nadu will get 20 more seats, Kerala 10, Telangana 9 and Andhra Pradesh 13 seats. Maharashtra, which after Uttar Pradesh, has the second highest number of MPs in the Lok Sabha, will gain 24 more seats. Shah said the total number of Lok Sabha seats in the five southern states will go up from the current 129 seats to 195 while the percentage of power will increase from 23.76 per cent to 23.87 per cent.
"In Karnataka, there are 28 Lok Sabha seats out of the total 543 and 5.15% MPs come from Karnataka in the house. After the bill is passed, the strength of Karnataka MPs will be increased from 28 to 42, while the representation will 5.14%. So there is no loss to Karnataka," Amit Shah told Lok Sabha. In Andhra, he said while the number of Lok Sabha seats will be increased from 25 to 38, the representation will be increased 4.60% to 4.65% after delimitation.
"In Telangana, there are 17 seats, while the representation in the house of 543 members, the representation is 3.13%. Now after an increase of 50% members, the seats will be increased to 26, while the representation will be increased to 3.18%," he added.
On Tamil Nadu, the union minister assured the people of the state that their power would not be reduced, but it would increase. "39 MPs are elected from Tamil Nadu and in the house of 543 members, the representation is 7.18% and after the increase, the strength of MPs would be increased to 59 and their representation in the house of 816 members would be 7.23%," he added.He further said the number of Lok Sabha seats in the five southern states will go up from the present 129 to 195 seats, while the representation will increase from 23.76% to 23.87%.
#WATCH | Speaking in Lok Sabha on women's reservation and delimitation, Union Home Minister Amit Shah says, "The biggest narrative being created is that these three bills, the Constitution Amendment Bill, two laws on delimitation, and changes to the constituency election law,… pic.twitter.com/kv9bcJEL5E
— ANI (@ANI) April 16, 2026
The government has maintained that the delimitation will be based on the 2011 census. The delimitation will also operationalise one-third reservation for women in Parliament, a long-pending plan approved in 2023
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