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BJP planning to increase strength of Lok Sabha to 1,000?

Manish Tewari says he has been "reliably informed by colleagues" in BJP about this

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Congress leader Manish Tewari claimed that there is a proposal to increase the strength of Lok Sabha to 1,000 or more.

In a series of tweets, the Congress leader said he has been "reliably informed by Parliamentary colleagues" in the BJP that there is a proposal to increase the strength of Lok Sabha to 1,000 or more before 2024.

"New Parliament Chamber being constructed as a 1000 seater. Before this is done there should be a serious public consultation," he tweeted.

The job of MP is to make laws for the country, he said, adding, "Role was emasculated by 10 th schedule of Indian Constitution. To take care of development imperatives we have 73rd 74th Constitutional Amendment topped by legislative assemblies. If proposal to increase LS to 1000 is true it has implications ."

However, when Congress MP Karti Chidambaram reacted to the tweet about possible increase in the number of members in Parliament, saying, "A large country like ours needs more directly elected representatives. But if the increase is based on population it will further diminish the representation of the southern states, that will not be acceptable," Tewari said he does not yet know if this is correct.

"Do not yet know correct or otherwise proposal/idea includes 1/3 rd Reservation for women. Good move but why 1/3rd out of 1000 or more why not 543 that Hon’ble CP Smt Sonia Gandhi has been fighting for for over two decades. Women are 50% but parliament of 1000 has own implications," he tweeted.

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