Hyderabad, April 18 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Union minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar accused Congress and the INDIA alliance of betraying the interests of southern states as the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026, was defeated in Lok Sabha.

The Bill, introduced on April 16, aimed at increasing the strength of the Lok Sabha, bringing into force fresh delimitation based on the latest census report, and implementing women's reservation. But the Bill failed to gain the two-thirds majority required in the House.

Reacting to the development, Sanjay alleged that the opposition blocked safeguards for southern states ahead of the post-2026 delimitation exercise. He argued that population-based redistribution could reduce the r...