Centre lists 5 bills for Monsoon Session, suspense on Delimitation Bill
The suspense over the all-important Delimitation Bill continues, as the government has placed five other bills for introduction during the three-week Monsoon Session of Parliament
The suspense over the all-important Delimitation Bill continues, as the government has placed five other bills for introduction during the three-week Monsoon Session of Parliament, which begins on Monday. The Delimitation Bill was introduced alongside the Women's Reservation Bill as part of a single legislative package -- the 131st Constitutional Amendment Bill -- but failed to secure the required two-thirds special majority in the Lok Sabha during the three-day special session convened in April. Read Full Story Back then, the BJP-led NDA did not have the required two-thirds majority in either House of Parliament. However, much has changed since then. The TMC's rout in the West Bengal Assembly elections in May strengthened the BJP's position in both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha. As a result, the gap to the has narrowed in both Houses, where the threshold stands at 360 MPs in the Lok Sabha and 164 in the Rajya Sabha.
In the aftermath of the same Assembly election results, and following M.K. Stalin's fallout with his INDIA bloc ally, the Congress, the BJP has also been eyeing the support of the DMK's 22 Lok Sabha MPs to improve its chances of passing Constitutional Amendment Bills, which require a two-thirds special majority in both Houses of Parliament. However, with delimitation remaining a political flashpoint in Tamil Nadu -- an issue the DMK itself campaigned aggressively against while in power -- it remains to be seen whether Stalin's party would back the BJP on the 131st Constitutional Amendment Bill. Another Constitutional Amendment Bill that has been pushed to the back burner is the 130th Constitutional Amendment Bill, which seeks the automatic removal from public office of any person -- including the Prime Minister and Chief Ministers -- who has been jailed for 30 days.
After triggering a major uproar when it was introduced in Parliament in 2025, the Bill was referred back to the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), which has since returned it with proposed changes. It remains to be seen whether a revised Bill will be taken up during the Monsoon Session. Among the five new Bills placed on the Centre's legislative agenda for the Monsoon Session of Parliament are the Prevention of Insults to Honour (Amendment) Bill, 2026, and the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill. The former seeks to amend the 1971 law to make the intentional insult of, or disruption during, the singing of the national song Vande Mataram a punishable offence, while the latter proposes stricter provisions for the delayed registration of births and deaths. The other three new Bills listed for the Monsoon Session are the Income Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2026, the Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment Bill, 2026, and the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development (Amendment) Bill, 2026.
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