New Delhi/Mumbai, July 16 -- A renewed bid by the Union government to pass a constitution amendment bill on women's reservation and delimitation gathered momentum on Wednesday after Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) leader Supriya Sule said her party would consider supporting the proposed legislation if it spelt out a uniform 50% increase in Lok Sabha seats across all states. The development came amid speculation that the government will re-introduce the bill that failed to garner the required two-thirds majority in the Lok Sabha in the previous session. There is also buzz that the NCP (SP), a partner in Maharashtra's opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), was inching closer to the ruling National Democratic Alliance. On Tuesday night, senior NCP (SP) leader Jayant Patil met Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, in the presence of NCP leaders Praful Patel and Sunil Tatkare, fuelling rumours that efforts to reunite the two outfits were gaining pace. "The new delimitation bill has not yet been introduced. If it includes a provision ensuring a 50% increase in seats for all states, we will discuss it within the INDIA bloc. If it serves the interests of the people, we will consider supporting it," Sule said in Mumbai. There is a possibility that the government may revise the text of the proposed bill to include a reference to the 50% proportional increase in seats for each state, said a person aware of the details. According to this person, the Union government was keen to introduce the bill "provided it" had the numbers. The Constitution (One Hundred and Thirty First Amendment) Bill, 2026 and the Delimitation Bill, which seeks to redraw boundaries based on the 2011 census and is a prerequisite for implementing the 33% quotas for women in legislatures, were introduced in the Lok Sabha in the previous session. But the constitution amendment bill failed to reach the two-thirds majority mark in the Lower House, getting defeated 298 to 230. At the time, the NCP (SP) had voted against the bill. The government's legislative push involved raising the cap on seats in the Lok Sabha from 550 to 850, with the allocation of seats to states, the reserved constituencies and their boundaries being defined by a delimitation commission on the basis of the latest census, which would mean the 2011 one in this case. But the Opposition remained unconvinced, pointing out that the government's assurances of a uniform 50% rise in Lok Sabha seats in every state was verbal and not mentioned in the text of the bills....