New Delhi: Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu has said that the Union government will reintroduce the Delimitation Bill by adding a point about a 50% proportional increase of seats across states soon.

In an interview with Economic Times, Naidu, who is a key member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), said that he fully supports the move of reintroducing the Delimitation Bill.

"The NDA government will bring the Delimitation Bill and introduce women's reservation soon. It is the need of the hour if we want to introduce reservation of women in politics. This has my full support," Naidu, whose Telugu Desam Party (TDP) has 16 MPs in the parliament, told ET.

"The intention of the government was absolutely clear from the beginning. The government stated it on the floor of the House that there will be 50% increase of seats across the states and the proportion of seats will not change. There was only a matter of omission from the text of the Bill. The Opposition unnecessarily made it an issue," he added.

In April this year, for the first time in 12 years, the Narendra Modi government had failed to get a constitutional amendment Bill passed. In a major setback to it, a united opposition had defeated the constitutional amendment Bill that sought to increase the strength of the Lok Sabha to 850 seats to “operationalise” women’s reservation.

The Wire has reported that the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026, along with its accompanying delimitation Bill, sought to bring in large-scale changes that would not just increase the strength of the Lok Sabha to 850 but result in a fundamentally altered parliamentary arithmetic and change Union-state relations.

Opposition members have maintained that they supported women’s reservation but criticised the government for attempting to bring fundamental changes to the Constitution by seeking to increase the strength of the Lok Sabha, alongside a contentious delimitation exercise tied to the “latest published census” – implying the 15-year-old 2011 census – and tying the 33% women’s quota to it.

Naidu said that the Union government will now be able to pass the legislative package including Delimitation because “political circumstances have changed" (in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu).

At the moment, while the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has left the INDIA Alliance after the Congress decided to support the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) following the Tamil Nadu assembly elections and formed the coalition government with the TVK supremo Vijay as the chief minister.

However, the DMK has maintained that it will oppose the Delimitation Bill in its present form.

Meanwhile, the number of parliamentarians of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) stands reduced after 20 Lok Sabha MPs from the party decided to merge with the little-known Nationalist Citizen Party and declared their support for the NDA.

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