‘Oppose increase in SC, ST seats’: Amit Shah on Indian faction’s objection to delimitation bill – Top Quotes | india news
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah Addressing the Lok Sabha on the Women’s Reservation Bill on Friday, she accused the Congress-led opposition of supporting the law but with “ifs and buts”.He termed the opposition’s objection to delimitation as opposition to the increase in SC/ST seats.Here are the top quotes of Amit Shah:
- “No one has raised any objection to women’s reservation. But, if we look closely, all the members of the INDI alliance have opposed it using ‘ifs and buts’.”
- “Opposing delimitation means opposing increase in SC/ST seats.”
- “About 133 members in the House spoke on this important Constitution Amendment Bill, out of which 56 members were women, which will prove to be a record in itself.”
- “I assure them that if they support us for delimitation, the value of each vote will be the same in all constituencies.”
- “If we implement women’s reservation on the basis of 543 seats, 13 seats will be reserved for women and 26 seats will remain open in Tamil Nadu.”
- “If we implement women’s reservation based on 2011 census, the number of parliamentary seats will be reduced by 6. But we are not doing that. We are increasing the seats by 50% for every state.”
- “Even at that time (Emergency), it was the Congress Party which had deprived the people of the country of delimitation, and even today, it is the Congress Party which is depriving them of delimitation.”
- “To ensure that there is no confusion in the minds of 140 crore Indians, I want to clarify that the Narendra Modi cabinet had decided to conduct the caste census along with the 2026 census.”
- “The country should not be divided by this ‘North-South’ ‘East-West’ narrative. We must rise above this. All states and union territories have equal rights in this Parliament.”
- “The women of the country are watching who is standing in their way.”