The Supreme Court in 2025 had said that the delimitation exercise conducted before the post-2026 census data must not “destabilise the uniform electoral framework” envisaged by the Constitution and blur the clear demarcation between constitutional prescription and political discretion.

The court was dealing with a plea in the K. Purushottam Reddy case for the conduct of delimitation and re-adjustment of Legislative Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. The petitioner had argued that by conducting delimitation of constituencies in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir in 2022, the Centre was discriminating against the two States. The plea had sought parity.