New Delhi, June 14 -- NEW DELHI - Two months after suffering its first parliamentary defeat on a constitutional amendment, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is not seeking compromise. It is seeking converts.

Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh accused Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday of actively engineering defections from opposition parties to assemble the two-thirds supermajority that the BJP failed to deliver on April 17, when the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill went down by 54 votes in the Lok Sabha. The bill, which proposed expanding India's lower house from 543 seats to 850 and tying women's parliamentary reservation to a fresh delimitation exercise, marked the first time a constitutional amendment tabled by the Modi gove...