India, April 17 -- When Parliament convened this week for a special session to debate three bills linked to redrawing India's electoral map to increase the seats in the Lok Sabha - and thus reserve one-third seats for women - the Opposition was careful to make one thing clear from the outset, that it is not against the women's quota.

"We support women's reservation wholeheartedly," Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi told the Lok Sabha during the debate on the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill 2026, the Delimitation Bill 2026, and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill 2026.

What the Opposition contests, Gogoi underlined, is that the government's real intention behind the delimitation exercise is gerrymandering for political gain.

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