One of two Muslim women in the House – along with Trinamool Congress’s Sajda Ahmed – Choudhary, who represents Kairana in western UP, said her doubts about who the bill would actually reach were not principled. “There is no clarity on OBC or minority women. If the most marginalized are still missing, what are we really achieving?”Almost two years have passed since his first term Samajwadi Party The MP and SOAS University of London postgraduate said the entire debate had, at its core, become “a studio-polished metropolitan conversation” that had “barely touched” the constituency she represents.Ambition itself is a function of reach, he said. “Only women with advantages – family, connections, in politics – are capable of thinking like that.”Even where quotas already exist, at the “prime level”, the pipeline is narrow and pre-reserved. “Because of panchayat reservations, women can at least assume local leadership. But you still won’t see new faces – without the support of a husband or a family already in politics, that doesn’t happen.” She said that some women started as someone’s daughter or sister and made their place. “But we are still a deeply patriarchal society. A dedicated space should be created deliberately.” He said, it was the ground reality – not parliamentary procedure – that shaped his vote.“I come from a political family. Still, it took time for people to accept that women can lead,” the Kairana MP said. The threshold for Muslim women in Indian politics has hardly risen, she said. In the entire history of the Lok Sabha, only 18 Muslim women have been elected. Today, there are two.Its structural alarm is “delimitation link”. “The 2023 redistricting has reduced the number of Muslim-dominated seats, raising fears of reduced Muslim representation. Delimitation is not neutral”, he said, pointing to Assam.She said she sees the “same politics” in triple talaq too. “It criminalized a civil matter – even in the name of helping Muslim women.” Both moves, in her reading, “come wrapped in the language of women’s liberation while serving a completely different purpose. “It’s about playing with minds rather than giving women a voice.”He said the opposition was not even “properly” consulted on the issue of women’s reservation in Parliament. “Reform of this scale requires broad consensus. They didn’t have the numbers, so they didn’t try.”