“How To Think About India’s New Delimitation Exercise”, Swarajya, April 17, 2026

“When the Modi government tabled bills in April 2026 to expand the Lok Sabha from 543 to 850 seats and implement women’s reservation, southern chief ministers revolted, Congress cried gerrymandering, and the DMK threatened to shut Tamil Nadu down. The charge — that the BJP is redrawing the map to entrench itself — is not frivolous.

Delimitation is inherently political: whoever draws the boundaries shapes the outcome.

But the debate so far has been entirely about who benefits and who loses. That is the wrong frame. The right frame is to ask what principles a fair delimitation should follow — and to judge the current map, and any proposed replacement, against those principles……..”

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