The DMK has proposed a private member's bill to implement a 33% women's quota in the Lok Sabha, delinking it from any change in the total number and boundaries of constituencies.
The bill, proposed by DMK MP Wilson, aims to implement the 33% reservation from the next election on the existing 543-seat Lok Sabha without any seat-increase, delimitation, or census data.
This move comes after the BJP-led government's Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill failed in Parliament, seeking to hasten the implementation of 33% women's quota in legislatures.
Opposition parties have argued that reservation could be implemented on the existing 543 seats without any of the contested provisions.
The DMK bill also seeks to make the reservation permanent and unlike the government's Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam of 2023, which limited reservation to 15 years.
