India, April 17 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday assured lawmakers that amendments to expedite 33% women's reservation by 2029 - which includes the provision of increasing the overall seats in the Lok Sabha by 50% and carrying out delimitation on the basis of the latest available census, effectively the 2011 one - will not discriminate against or do injustice to anyone.

Speaking in the Lok Sabha, the PM sought to allay concerns of the opposition parties that the bills will result in the Southern states losing their relative political power in Parliament and that the bills are drawn with an eye on electoral benefits for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. He also cautioned that parties who opposed women's reservation in the past...