As the largest party in the House with 240 members BJP The number of women MPs is also highest at 31, which is about 13% of its total number. Among its allies, JD(U) and LJP (Ram Vilas) have two women MPs each, while TDP and Apna Dal (Sonilal) have one woman MP each.On the other hand, Congress has 13 women members out of total 99, followed by its allies Trinamool Congress (11 out of 29), Samajwadi Party (5 out of 37), and DMK (3 out of 22). India Block also includes one woman MP each from NCP (SP), RJD and JMM.Although ranking third in absolute numbers, nearly 38% of Trinamool Congress (TMC) Lok Sabha MPs are women – the highest proportion among parties with at least 10 women MPs.West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee – herself a former Lok Sabha member – also emphasized this point in her reaction to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation on Saturday.Read this also ‘PM Modi’s address on women’s reservation violates the Model Code of Conduct’: CPM, CPI write letter to Election Commission; Flag usage of state broadcasters“It is extremely unfortunate that the Prime Minister chose to mislead the nation rather than honestly address it. Let me put this on record. Trinamool Congress has always advocated higher political representation for women. We have the highest proportion of women elected representatives in both Parliament and State Legislatures. In the Lok Sabha, 37.9% of our elected members are women. In the Rajya Sabha, we have nominated 46% women members. Banerjee, who faces assembly elections in her home state on April 23 and 29, wrote on Twitter, “The question of opposing women’s reservation does not arise and has never arisen.”Read this also‘Cowardly, hypocritical and cowardly’: Mamata Banerjee hits back at PM Modi over women’s reservation billThe Prime Minister said this a day after the Women’s Reservation Bill failed to be passed in the House after it was blocked by the opposition. In her address she blamed Congress, TMC, DMK and Samajwadi Party for the defeat of the bill and described them as “anti-women”.