Women’s quota bill falls flat in the Lok Sabha test
The 131st constitutional amendment regarding the women’s quota in Parliament seats has fallen flat. This happened despite the bill receiving more yes votes than no votes.
Just hours before Lok Sabha voted against the amendments in the women’s reservation law in the Lower House, PM Narendra Modi reached out to all Members of Parliament, appealing to them to vote for ‘women power of the country’.
NDA floor leaders will meet after voting in the Lok Sabha on the 3 key bills introduced on Thursday in Parliament, including the women’s reservation and delimitation bills. DMK MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi said that the opposition wants clarity from home minister Amit Shah on the calculations he provided on Thursday on how many seats will be increased in the Southern states. Shah had said that 50 per cent of the seats will be increased across states in India.
The decision on three key bills, including increasing the women’s quota in Parliament and expanding the number of seats, will be taken today at 4 pm in the Lok Sabha, but only after several more hours of debate.
The three bills tabled in Parliament on Thursday by law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal are the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026; the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026; and the Delimitation Bill, 2026.
These bills propose to increase the size of the Lok Sabha, enable delimitation based on the 2011 Census, and allow reservation for women to be implemented based on this delimitation.
The Union Territories Laws Bill provides for similar provisions for Puducherry, Delhi, and Jammu & Kashmir.