What the ‘science’ of delimitation and fertility struggles to capture

The Indian government introduced three Bills in the Lok Sabha: the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, the Delimitation Bill, and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill. The proposed laws would expand the Lok Sabha size from 543 seats to 850 seats and empower the government to conduct a new delimitation exercise based on the 2011 population census. However, the Constitutional Amendment Bill failed to pass, and the other two Bills were withdrawn.