Congress on Tuesday questioned the Centre over Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s remarks that the Delimitation Bill would be brought back with a provision for a 50 per cent increase in Lok Sabha seats, with party leader Jairam Ramesh asking why the government failed to formally incorporate such a proposal when Parliament debated the legislation earlier this year.Responding to Naidu’s reported assertion that the NDA government remained committed to increasing the strength of the Lok Sabha by 50 per cent, Ramesh said the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister was being “unfair” to the Opposition in the Lok Sabha.”The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh is being unfair to the Opposition in the Lok Sabha,” Ramesh said. The Congress leader claimed that on April 16, 2026, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) itself had suggested an amendment to the Constitution Amendment Bill under discussion in Parliament to make it clear that the existing strength of every state in the Lok Sabha would increase by 50 per cent. However, he alleged that Union Home Minister Amit Shah never actually moved the amendment sought by the TDP despite the party being a key ally of the ruling NDA.”But the super-confident, super-arrogant Union Home Minister never actually moved such an amendment that the TDP was asking for,” Ramesh said.He said the central issue was not the Opposition’s position on the legislation but the government’s decision not to formally place before Parliament an amendment that, according to him, had been sought by one of its own allies.”That is the real question,” Ramesh said, asking why the proposed provision was left out despite the TDP’s stated position. The Congress leader also took a swipe at Amit Shah, saying questions remained over what “devious games” the Home Minister was playing.Ramesh further referred to Shah as the “self-declared Chanakya” and said he had been “brutally exposed” on the evening of April 17, 2026. The remarks came a day after Naidu reportedly dismissed Opposition criticism over the absence of a specific provision guaranteeing a 50 per cent increase in Lok Sabha seats and maintained that the Bill would return with such a clause.The exchange has once again brought the politically sensitive delimitation debate into focus. Several parties, particularly from southern states, have sought clarity on how parliamentary representation would be recalibrated and whether safeguards would be put in place before the exercise is undertaken. In a parting jibe at the ruling alliance and its allies, Ramesh said the TDP now appeared to have been overshadowed by the Nationalist Citizens Party of India, a relatively new political outfit that has recently emerged at the centre of national political discussions.”Now the TDP has been overshadowed by an obscure Nationalist Citizens Party of India,” he said.