The failure of the Constitutional Amendment Bill is the defeat of delimitation, not of women’s reservation: Opposition. india news
New Delhi: The victorious opposition termed the failure of the Constitutional Amendment Bill as the defeat of delimitation, not women’s reservation.After the opposition got the upper hand in voting. Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi Spoke to TMC heir apparent and MP Abhishek Banerjee and thanked him for the support. There were concerns that due to the election campaign in Bengal, only a few of the 28 TMC MPs might come to Parliament. But after repeated requests from India Bloc leaders, TMC sent 21 MPs, who impressed Mamata Banerjee Attendance at the debate and voting was crucial to thwarting the Modi government’s plan on delimitation. According to sources, Banerjee told Rahul, “The wind is blowing against the BJP.”Akhilesh Yadav called it the defeat of BJP’s malice.RSP’s NK Premachandran said the non-passage of the bill shows that the BJP should take advice from the opposition on important issues related to the country. He said, “This defeat is not about women’s quota, but about backdoor delimitation.”Priyanka Gandhi Vadra accused PM Narendra Modi of linking women’s reservation with delimitation based on the 2011 census. “But his hollow attempt to project himself as the messiah of women has failed today,” he said. Priyanka said that if these three bills had been passed in the Parliament, democracy would not have survived in India.Rahul Gandhi said, “They used unconstitutional tactics in the name of women to break the Constitution.” Congress whip Manickam Tagore said, “We have defeated ego.”CPI MP Sandosh Kumar said the collapse of the government law shows that there is strong opposition to any attempt to change the balance of representation in the country. He said that the women of the country should understand the BJP’s approach of delaying women’s reservation by linking it with census and delimitation. “This defeat is similar to what we saw during the farmers’ movement, when the unity of the people forced the government to repeal the farm laws.“DMK chief MK Stalin, who led the protests in Tamil Nadu, said his party was concerned about delimitation, adding “careful consideration needs to be given to ensure that it is fair, especially for the southern states”. He said that the government should have separated women’s reservation from delimitation.