India's Lok Sabha is set to vote on Friday, 17 April 2026, on three constitutional amendment bills that would overhaul how the country's 2023 Women's Reservation Act — which guarantees women 33% of seats in legislatures — is implemented, tying its activation to a forthcoming delimitation (the redrawing of parliamentary constituency boundaries) expected after the next national census. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah assured lawmakers that southern states, which have long feared losing seats due to slower population growth compared to northern states, would see their absolute number of constituencies rise while maintaining roughly the same proportional share; Telangana, for instance, would gain nine new Lok Sabha seats, growing from 17 to 26. The bills have drawn criticism from opposition figures, with Odisha's former Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik warning MPs that linking women's reservation to delimitation could undermine regional representation, and Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister M.K. Stalin demanding a written guarantee that constituency boundaries remain based on 1971 population figures for the next 25 years.