How your state’s power in Parliament will change with 816 MPs

The Centre is exploring the possibility of delinking the Women’s Reservation Act, 2023 — which seeks to reserve one-third of seats in the Lok Sabha and state Assemblies for women — from the impending Census and delimitation exercises, and learnt to have suggested that the strength of the Lok Sabha be raised from the current 543 to 816, including 273 seats reserved for women. A reconfigured Lok Sabha would only come into force in the 2029 Lok Sabha polls.

As reported by The Indian Express on Monday, at the meeting with some Opposition…