States that stabilised population will not lose Lok Sabha seats: Modi

States that have stabilised their populations will not lose their Lok Sabha seats during delimitation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at an election rally in Kerala on Saturday.

All states will benefit from a proposed increase in the size of the Lower House of ParliamentParliamentParliament, he said in Thiruvalla, in what are being viewed as the prime minister’s first comments about the proposed delimitation exercise.

Delimitation is the process of fixing the boundaries of electoral constituencies. Article 82 of the Constitution states that after every census is completed, the allocation of Lok Sabha seats to each state must be adjusted based on changes in its population.