The readjustment of current strength of the Lok Sabha and the State Assemblies in India has been frozen…

Under the provisos to articles 82 and 170(3), as amended by the Constitution (Eighty-fourth Amendment) Act 2001, the allocation of Lok Sabha seats among the States and the total number of seats in each State Assembly stay frozen until the relevant figures for the first census taken after the "year 2026" are published. The years 2016, 2018 and 2020 have no basis in these provisions; the later use of the 2001 census for redrawing constituency boundaries did not change the frozen seat totals.

Current law: The constitutional wording continues to tie readjustment to published figures of the first census taken after 2026. The year's passage alone does not automatically increase seats or terminate the freeze.