The Editorial Page: In workers’ protests, a test of labour reforms 8 THURSDaY, aPRIL 16, 2026 Journalism of Courage jaipUr, laTe CiTy, 16 pageS ₹6.00 l www.indianexpress.com Da i ly f r o M : a h M e Da b a D , C h a n D i ga r h , D e l h i , j a i p U r , Ko l K aTa , lU C K n o w , M U M b a i , n ag p U r , paT n a , p U n e , va D o Da r a POstal Regn. nO. JaiPuR City/001/2024-26 staRting toDay, tHRee-Day sitting of PaRliament on constitution amenDment bills inDustRial Hub Has 6,500 units — auto to PHaRma Govt plan: Keep south share same in Rising prices, Haryana wage hike spark protests in Bhiwadi LS, list states’ new count in ‘schedule’ Parul Kulshrestha Bhiwadi, April 15 Delimitation exercise to demarcate constituencies based on 2011 Census, LS seats for all states to go up 50% Vikas Pathak & Jatin anand New Delhi, April 15 thE gOvERnMEnt will most likely bring on thursday a ‘schedule’ in Parliament to clearly specify the number of lok sabha seats for each state, and this will show that the percentage share of each state in the lok sabha’s total strength is the same as it is now, top sources said. a ‘schedule’ is an additional section to a legislation that provides detailed information supporting its text. stating that the three Bills cleared by the Cabinet to facilitate women's reservation and delimitation of lok sabha constituencies could not have mentioned a pro-rata increase in the number of lok sabha seats for states, the sources said, it would be done in the ‘schedule’. “there will be no »continueD on Page 2 E. EXPlainEd Challenge to Opp The Opposition parties have primarily criticised the government's move to link women's reservation to the increase in the Lok Sabha strength and the delimitation exercise. With the government keen to maintain a pro-rata distribution of the increased seats in the Lok Sabha, the Opposition, including states in the midst of Assembly polls, will find it challenging to push its case. Opp chorus: For women’s quota, but delimitation a devious BJP agenda asad Rehman New Delhi, April 15 sEtting thE stage for a turbulent three-day session of Parliament which will meet thursday, Opposition parties said Wednesday that they will vote against the Constitution amendment Bill provisions on delimitation, some among them calling the delimitation plan “a devious agenda” and “a tool to win a majority for the ruling party”. the Opposition parties »continueD on Page 2 Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and loP Rahul gandhi with other inDia bloc leaders in new Delhi, Wednesday. ani ‘India was not built through arithmetic, but on trust’ Until last month, sunita Devi would get by on her salary: Rs 11,500 a month. a mother of three, sunita would use that money to pay rent and groceries, and whatever remained would go into raising her three children. that changed when the West asia war began to drive up gas prices, squeezing finances at home. “Earlier, i could buy a 3 kg cylinder for Rs 200. now, it’s gone up to Rs 1,500,” she says. Outside a factory in Bhiwadi, Rajasthan. parUl KUlShreSTha “i work eight hours, for which i get Rs 60 as overtime. how is my salary meant to keep pace?” EXPRESS investigation in association witH iciJ tamil nadu CM M K stalin campaigns in Dharmapuri, Wednesday. pTi arun Janardhanan Chennai, April 15 a Day after issuing a “final warning” to the Union government over delimitation, tamil nadu Chief Minister M K stalin moved swiftly from rhetoric to mobilisation, convening an urgent meeting of DMK district secretaries on Wednesday and calling for statewide black flag protests on thursday. invoking tamil nadu’s history of political assertion, stalin suggested that if institutional responses failed, public expression would follow. Excerpts from an interview on Wednesday after EXPRESS interview m K stalin Chief MiniSTer, TaMil naDU the DMK’s latest escalation: You have described delimitation not just as a political issue but as a question of fairness and federal balance. What, in your view, is the principle that should guide India at this moment? india was not constructed »continueD on Page 2 7 Indian firms in race, experts eye cheaper Keytruda version in 2 yrs anonna Dutt dated 200mg dose New Delhi, April 15 costs more than Rs 3 lakh. With at least seven “We have seen indian manufacthis with other imturers in the race to tHe canceR munotherapies. develop generic verthe entry of biosions of Merck & Co’s similars leads to a best-selling cancer significant drop in parT-iv immunotherapy drug prices, sometimes Keytruda, doctors and re- by as much as 70%. this is the searchers say a far cheaper alter- simplest way to make cancer native could be available within drugs more affordable and actwo years when the drug’s patent cessible. in the long run, expires in June 2028 — offering however, india needs to hope at a time when each man»continueD on Page 2 calculus Jaipur the 35-year-old, who works at a factory in Bhiwadi, tells »continueD on Page 2 Happening today lHouselisting phase of Census 2027 begins in eight States and UTs, including Delhi. Business as Usual By EP UNNY