Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said that the southern states would gain both in terms of seats and share in the Lok Sabha once the proposed delimitation to implement 33 per cent women’s reservation is carried out.Intervening in the debate on the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026, and the Delimitation Bill, 2026, introduced in the Lok Sabha, Shah said the five southern states would, after delimitation, have 195 seats and a 23.87 per cent share in the Lok Sabha, as against 129 seats and a 23.76 per cent share at present.He said that this would be based on the proposed enhancement of 50 per cent in the Lok Sabha seat share of every state.Giving a break-up of the parliamentary seats the southern states would have after delimitation, Shah said a “false narrative is being spun that these states will lose on numbers as well as representation in the House”.His remarks were aimed at DMK chief MK Stalin, whose party MPs attended the Lok Sabha in black attire as a mark of protest against the women’s quota Bills.The Home Minister also responded to Opposition leaders who questioned the basis for arriving at the figure of 850 MPs — 815 in the Lok Sabha and 35 for Union Territories with legislatures.“This is because once you reserve 33 per cent of 815 seats, the remainder is 543, which will stay unreserved as is the case today. Even in this segment, women can contest,” Shah said.He further asserted that the Delimitation Commission law to be followed by the BJP-led NDA government would be the same as that adopted by erstwhile Congress-led governments.“There is no change and there will be no manipulation,” he said, responding to Congress MP Priyanka Vadra’s earlier allegation that the government would pack the Commission with its own members and that its orders could not be challenged under the law.