New Delhi: The Centre is likely to convene a special session of Parliament between April 16 and April 18, with key legislative moves on the Women’s Reservation Act and the long-pending delimitation exercise expected to dominate the agenda, according to government sources and recent policy discussions. The proposed session comes amid intensified consultations with political parties, with the government already initiating all-party outreach to build consensus on the twin issues.
Reservation Act (2023), which guarantees 33% reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies, but is yet to be implemented.
Currently, the law is tied to the completion of a fresh census and the subsequent delimitation exercise. The Centre is now exploring decoupling the quota from delimitation to enable earlier rollout of reservations.
Alongside the quota law, the government is also expected to move legislation related to the delimitation of constituencies, a politically sensitive exercise that redraws electoral boundaries based on population changes.
The delimitation process, frozen for decades, is due after the first census post-2026.
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