BJP leader and former Minister Anurag Thakur on Sunday (April 19, 2026) sought to dismantle the Opposition’s charges that delimitation would punish and hurt southern States as a “false narrative” and “manufactured crisis” by the DMK and Congress.

Addressing a press conference in Bengaluru, he explained that under the Narendra Modi Government’s proposed “50% formula”, every single southern State would gain more seats than even a 2011 Census projection would have provided. “For example, Tamil Nadu’s current 39 Lok Sabha seats would leap to 59 (ten more than the 2011 Census projection), Kerala’s tally would increase from 20 to 30 bonus seats, and Karnataka would move from 28 to 42 seats. Andhra Pradesh would increase from 25 to 37 seats, and Telangana from 17 to 25 seats,” he said.