Name: Shalini Singh, Om Prakash Singh
Country: India

Year: 2026
Volume: Volume-13, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 209-215
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20178559

The Indian Constitutions 106th (One Hundred and Sixth Amendment) Act, 2023 guarantees one-third of the seats that is 33% seats in the Lok Sabha, State Legislative Assemblies, and the Delhi Assembly. The whole point is to get more women in politics. But don‘t expect this to happen anytime soon. The law, through Articles 330A, 332A, and 334A, basically pushes the start date down the road. It all hinges on a new census and another round of redrawing the electoral map by the Delimitation Commission. So, until the government finishes those steps, women‘s reservation is on pause. It‘s all tangled up with how the country decides where and how seats get assigned. In short, women‘s reservation won‘t actually take effect until these steps are done, so it‘s tied into the bigger system that decides how seats are distributed across the country.