The constitutional representation of women's commission went through a rough and tumble 30-year journey from the Women's Reservation Bill of 1996 to the Constitution (One Hundred and Sixth Amendment) Act, 2023, commonly referred to as Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam. Articles 330A and 332A, which guarantee a third of the seats in the Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies, respectively, for women, were inserted into the Act but their operation was postponed to the first delimitation exercise after the commencement of the Act, and hence, women's representation was delayed for several electoral cycles. This paper critically analyzes the legal structure of this conditionality clause and the latest legislative amendment which aimed at fast-tracking the process by removing the reservation criteria from the pending decennial census, namely the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026. The paper chronicles the defeat of this corrective bill in the Lok Sabha on 17 April 2026 by 54 votes from the two-thirds special majority required under Article 368, thus continuing the ambiguity over women's substantive political participation. The paper submits that a conditional constitutional promise for gender parity, based on doctrinal legal considerations and the Parliamentary minutes and contemporised reportage, becomes a mere symbolic act. It situates this domestic struggle in the international context of India's obligations under CEDAW and the Beijing Platform for Action, and makes a contrast with the immediately operative reservation, granted to women at the panchayat and municipal level under the Seventy-Third and Seventy-Fourth Amendments. It ends by suggesting to delink the reservation from the delimitation, embed enforceable timelines and adopt rotation without relying on the decennial census outcomes.