Immediately after the question hour on Thursday, a war of words started between the ruling party and the opposition parties on this issue. Congress MP Jairam Ramesh said, “When the Nari Shakti Vandan Act was passed in this House on September 23, 2023, the LOP and opposition members had urged the government to implement it from the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. At that time the government said that we cannot do this; We have to do a census; We have to delimit.…For 30 months they slept, and suddenly they realized that we don’t need a census; We do not need delimitation because we have a challenge in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu. This is all politics…”Earlier, LoP Mallikarjun Kharge said that he all support women’s reservation, but the government should not “play games on when and how to bring the bill”, Rijiju responded by saying that the government is bound to fulfill its promises made to the women of the country. “The important thing is that we have a duty, a commitment that the Parliament of India has given to the women of this country. It has nothing to do with specific state elections. We should take it forward because we have some limitations when we look at the time scale…we should not get into politics on this important issue,” the minister said.