Congress leader Manish Tewari said on Monday that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led central government is holding "serious discussion" to increase the strength of the Lok Sabha to 1,000. Architectural plan of new Parliament chamber should be tabled at Parliament," Tewari was quoted as saying by news agency ANI. In December 2019, former President Pranab Mukherjee hsd called for almost doubling the strength of the Lok Sabha to 1,000 lawmakers, from the current 545. The first Lok Sabha election in 1952 had 461 seats but within three years, the seats swelled up to 499. The share of seats from each state depends largely on the census and the current strength of 545 seats was construed with reference to the 1971 census.

Source: Hindustan Times July 26, 2021 09:56 UTC