The draft Constitution Amendment Bill to prepone commencement of the 33 per cent women’s reservation in Lok Sabha and state assemblies proposed to raise the current strength of the Lok Sabha from 543 MPs to 850.The draft of the Constitution (One Hundred and Thirty-First Amendment) Bill 2026 shared with Lok Sabha MPs today also seeks to use the 2011 Census data to enhance the strength of Lok Sabha and state assemblies to provide one third seats for women.Amending Article 55 of the Constitution, the Bill says “In Article 55 of the Constitution, for the term — Explanation — the following explanation will be substituted — “In this article the expression population means the population as ascertained at such Census, as Parliament may by law determine under Article 82 or Article 10, of which the relevant figures have been published.”Since the only published data available is of the 2011 Census, the Bill will use that data for delimitation and reservation.It further amends Article 81 which deals with the structure of the Lok Sabha.Outcome of this amendment will raise Lok Sabha strength to 850 MPs.The Bill says, “In Article 81 of the Constitution (a) For clause (1), the following clause shall be substituted namely —(1) The House of the People shall consist of(a) not more than 815 members chosen by direct elections from territorial constituencies in states.(b) not more than 35 members to represent the UTs chosen in such manner as Parliament may by law provide,” says the Bill.It also proposes to set up a Delimitation Commission to conduct the reservation exercise.The government will pilot the above Constitution Amendment Bill, a bill to amend the government of UTs Act 1963, the Government of NCT of Delhi Act 1991 and the J&K Reorganisation Act 2019 and the Delimitation Bill 2026 to provide for readjustment of seats in the Lok Sabha.