India's Supreme Court ruled in 2025 that any delimitation exercise carried out before post-2026 census data must not "destabilise the uniform electoral framework" enshrined in the Constitution, a verdict now drawing renewed attention amid controversy over a proposed delimitation bill. The court made the statement while handling a case involving Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, two southern Indian states whose legislatures challenged what they saw as unequal treatment after the central government conducted delimitation in Jammu and Kashmir in 2022. The justices also affirmed that courts could intervene if delimitation were found to be "manifestly arbitrary and irreconcilable to constitutional values," signalling judicial limits on the government's political discretion in redrawing electoral boundaries.