New Delhi, April 17 -- The Constitution Amendment Bill to tweak the Women's Reservation Bill was defeated in the Lok Sabha on 17 April as the Union government failed to get a two-thirds majority in the House during the special session.

This basically means the Lok Sabha rejected the Narendra Modi government's proposal to expand the Lok Sabha's existing strength from 543 to 850 seats and to allow delimitation of seats based on the 2011 Census.

The landmark bill needed a two-thirds majority in the Lok Sabha, approximately 360 votes, to pass in the lower house of Parliament. However, only 298 MPs voted in favour of the bill, and 230 MPs voted against it.

Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had appealed to the Opposition leade...