New Delhi: Amid speculations on its stand if the constitutional amendment Bill pertaining to delimitation is reintroduced in the Parliament, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has said that the party remains opposed to the Bill in its present form.DMK deputy general secretary and MP A. Raja has told New Indian Express that the party remains “in principle against the delimitation bill in its present format” and would keep fighting for state rights.“Our demands remain the same and we have to see how they bring in a new bill,” Raja told the newspaper.The DMK’s stand on the Bill is under spotlight after the party’s recent exit from the INDIA bloc, following the Congress’s alliance with the Tamiliga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) which emerged as the single-largest party in the recently-concluded Tamil Nadu assembly elections and formed the government with the help of Congress and other parties.In April, for the first time in 12 years, the Narendra Modi government had failed to get the constitutional amendment Bill passed.A united opposition had defeated the constitutional amendment Bill that sought to increase the strength of the Lok Sabha to 850 seats to “operationalise” women’s reservation.The Wire has reported that the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026, along with its accompanying delimitation Bill, sought to bring in large-scale changes that would not just increase the strength of the Lok Sabha to 850 but result in a fundamentally altered parliamentary arithmetic and change Union-state relations.At the time, the DMK, which was in alliance with Congress and also a part of the INDIA bloc, had put up a scathing opposition to the bill.“We will not align with the BJP just because we walked out of the INDIA bloc,” New Indian Express quoted a senior DMK leader as saying.The leader added that DMK remains in touch with Opposition parties and is actively working towards forming a third front.“The primary demand of the DMK is that the delimitation exercise should not be linked to the current population figures, which will amount to punishing the states which actively controlled the population. The population reference should be with 1971, and the centre should extend the freeze for another 25 years,” a DMK MP told the newspaper.