Overview
- Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who posted on X Sunday, called Congress’s use of the term “gerrymandering” propaganda and said the redraw was a long‑overdue correction to protect indigenous representation.
- Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, accused the BJP of using delimitation in Assam and Jammu and Kashmir to tilt future elections, while Gaurav Gogoi told Parliament the women’s reservation push masked a partisan boundary plan.
- Assam’s delimitation is the Election Commission’s redrawing of voting maps using the 2001 Census, finalised in August 2023 for 126 Assembly seats and 14 Lok Sabha seats.
- The 2023 changes reset which constituencies are reserved for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and shifted lines in several minority‑heavy areas, drawing sharp reactions across parties.
- One local flashpoint is Barak Valley, where two Assembly seats were cut, which could shrink direct representation for some towns and alter which communities pick their MLA.