New Delhi, July 16: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and demanded for concerning the meeting of all the parties to discuss the government’s revise proposals on issues like delimitation and others.
In his letter to the Prime Minister, the Congress president, who is also the Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha said, “All of March and April, 2026, I had been writing to Minister of Parliamentary Affairs requesting that the Union Government convene an All Party Meeting to discuss its proposals regarding Delimitation etc.
“Unfortunately, these requests had not been accepted. The Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026, then failed to secure the required two third majority in Lok Sabha on April17, 2026 by a clear margin,” he said.
Kharge said, “I have been reading in media reports that the Union Government now proposes to reintroduce a revised (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026 during the forthcoming Monsoon Session of Parliament. I would, once again, request you to convene an All Party Meeting to discuss the Government’s revised proposals on delimitation, etc., and give us adequate time to study them in detail before they are introduced in Parliament,” Kharge demanded.
His letter comes to the Prime Minister comes before the commencement of the Parliament’s Monsoon Session on July 20.
The letter came days after reports suggested the government was examining multiple ways to increase the number of Lok Sabha seats for all states by 50 per cent to address concerns in southern states.
The fresh draft is being prepared amid concerns in the South that a population-based delimitation exercise could reduce their political strength in the Lok Sabha.
The first bill failed in the Lok Sabha on April 17 after the government could not secure the required two-thirds majority.
But with the changed equation in Lok Sabha as 20 of Trinamool Congress MPs have merged with NCPI, while six of the Shiv Sena UBT MPs had merged with the Eknath Shinde-led faction have improved the strength of the NDA in the Lower House.
