Pure Proportional Expansion — 816 Seats (Rejected)

The government's 131st Amendment proposed expanding Lok Sabha to 816 seats based on strict proportional allocation using 2011 census data, with a verbal (non-written) assurance that southern states would maintain share through a 50% expansion model [@cite_prs_131st_amendment].

Rejected for three documented reasons. (1) Southern states' share still declined from 23.8% to approximately 20.5% under strict proportionality even at 816 seats — the seat-share number became the political kill switch regardless of compensating mechanisms. (2) The share protection was a ministerial verbal assurance, not constitutional text — opposition parties rightly refused to vote for constitutional restructuring on the basis of promises. (3) The proposal packaged four separate problems — seat expansion, women's reservation, delimitation timing, and Rajya Sabha structure — into a single take-it-or-leave-it package, ensuring that opponents of any one element could defeat the whole.

Retained: the scale of expansion (800-range seats). Modified to: 800 seats with a Performance-Weighted Formula that eliminates the seat-share-decline number at its mathematical root.