Polity & Governance
Constitutional bodies, Parliament, judiciary and governance reforms
Women’s reservation: How numbers stack up in Parliament
As Parliament debates the 131st Amendment and Delimitation Bill to operationalise women's reservation, data on current and projected women's representation p...
Muslim quota demand sets off clash in Lok Sabha as women’s reservation, delimitation Bills are introduced
During the special parliamentary session introducing the Women's Reservation and Delimitation Bills, members from several parties demanded the inclusion of a...
Pass the Bill, or women of India won’t forgive: PM to Parliament
The Prime Minister made an appeal to Parliament urging the passage of the Women's Reservation Bill, declaring that the women of India would not forgive lawma...
Black flags, burning ‘Bills’: Why Stalin casts delimitation protest as reigniting ‘flames of resistance’ in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin led a dramatic statewide protest on April 16, 2026, hours before the Centre tabled the Delimitation Bill in Parliament,...
Why SP demanded quota for Muslim women despite Constitution hurdle
The Samajwadi Party (SP) demanded, during parliamentary debate on the Women's Reservation Act, that Muslim women be included in a dedicated sub-quota within ...
‘Delimitation won’t reduce South’s share in Lok Sabha’: Amit Shah breaks down the numbers
The Home Minister used a detailed numerical breakdown in Parliament to argue that the 816-seat Lok Sabha proposal would not reduce the South's share of seats...
Parliament special sitting LIVE updates: Representation of southern states will go up, says Amit Shah as he rebuts Priyanka Gandhi
Union Home Minister Amit Shah addressed Parliament during the special sitting to rebut the opposition's "south losing seats" narrative on delimitation. Shah ...
Delimitation Bill violates federalism, denies states with low population fair share: Owaisi
AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi, speaking in Lok Sabha on April 16, 2026, alleged that the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026 violates the basic structu...
Meghwal introduces 3 Bills to advance women’s quota to 2029, says states’ share in expanded Lok Sabha won’t change
Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal introduced three major Bills in the Lok Sabha during the special parliamentary session: (i) the Constitution (131st Amen...
As Lok Sabha discusses women’s quota, two Rajya Sabha women MPs weigh in: ‘There is a hidden intent’, ‘No question of seats being reduced’
During the Lok Sabha's consideration of the Women's Reservation Bill in 2023, women members of the Rajya Sabha offered perspectives on what parliamentary res...
Priyanka, Akhilesh lead Opposition onslaught: Govt using women quota to push delimitation, change electoral map
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra led a coordinated Opposition challenge in the Lok Sabha, arguing that the government was using ...
Meghalaya approves Khasi, Garo as official state languages alongside English
On April 16, 2026, the Meghalaya Cabinet approved the Meghalaya Official Languages Ordinance, 2026, declaring Khasi and Garo as official state languages alon...
Will delaying the Census affect its implementation?
India's 16th decennial Census — originally due in 2021 — was repeatedly postponed, first due to COVID-19, then administrative factors, making it the longest ...
Is the delimitation question settled?
As Parliament took up the three delimitation-related bills in a special session, a fundamental analytical question emerged: Is the constitutional case for pr...
Delimitation: Perspectives and viewpoints
As India's 16th Census gets underway in 2026, the question of delimitation — the redrawing of parliamentary and assembly constituency boundaries based on pop...
Any further delay in Census taking is perilous
A recent editorial argued that any further delay in conducting India's long-overdue population census carries perilous consequences for governance, welfare d...
Women’s quota — rhetoric and reality
The Constitution (106th Amendment) Act, 2023 — officially titled the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam — passed in a Special Session of Parliament on September 21...
Safeguard for States with stable populations is being removed with immediate effect
A key concern raised during the special parliamentary session is that the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026 proposes to remove with immediate effect ...
Women’s quota, panchayats to Parliament
With the Women's Reservation Act (106th Amendment) formally notified in April 2026, attention has turned to lessons from three decades of women's reservation...
No population Census — in the dark without vital data
An analytical opinion piece examines India's unprecedented census delay — the first gap in the country's 150-year census history — and its wide-ranging conse...