Demographic Convergence

Every previous reform framework treated the delimitation problem as a 2027–2034 crisis to be managed. None addressed the deeper question: what happens when the problem changes character?

By 2040–2055, India's internal TFR differential will have substantially narrowed. The representational problem of today — southern states losing political weight due to demographic success — will transform: southern states facing ageing-driven economic and fiscal stress while previously high-fertility northern states have young-adult labour surpluses [@cite_orf_age_before_rich; @cite_lowy_population_paradox]. A constitutional reform designed for 2027 with no adaptation mechanism for 2047 is not a reform — it is the next freeze.