Bengaluru, April 15 -- As the Centre proposes a Constitution Amendment to increase Lok Sabha Seats to 850 and allow delimitation based on the pre-2026 Census, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Wednesday said such legislation will systematically reduce the voice of the Southern states adding that his party and their allies won't allow these states to be "politically marginalised".

In a post on X, Shivakumar said the Centre is attempting a political re-engineering at the cost of Southern states.

"The proposal to increase Lok Sabha seats from 543 to 850 will systematically reduce the voice of the South, while rewarding unchecked population growth elsewhere. This is nothing but punishing progress and good governance," he wrot...