LS nod for Bill on freezing seats

NEW DELHI, AUG. 21. The Lok Sabha today passed a Constitution Amendment Bill, extending the current freeze on the number of seats in the Lok Sabha and the State Assemblies till 2026 but providing for fresh delimitation to alter the size of the constituency.

The Constitution (91st Amendment) Bill, 2000, approved with 297 voting in favour and two against, also proposes to refix the number of seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in the Lok Sabha and the State Assemblies on the basis of the population ascertained at the census for 1991.

In his reply to the discussion on the Bill, the Law Minister, Mr. Arun Jaitley, said the amendment was brought as a motivational measure to enable the State Governments to pursue the agenda for population stabilisation.

- PTI

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