Opposition stood against women’s reservation for ‘selfish political interests’, claims PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday alleged that Opposition parties stood against the women’s reservation bill for their “selfish political interests”, and that they insulted the framers of the Constitution by doing so.

Modi made the statement a day after the Union government’s bill to amend the 2023 Women’s Reservation Act and redraw the boundaries of electoral constituencies was defeated in the Lok Sabha. Opposition parties, including the Congress, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and Trinamool Congress, had maintained that they supported the amendments to the Women’s Reservation Act, but were opposed to the proposed delimitation of electoral constituencies.

The prime minister said on Saturday that he had hoped that the Congress would “rectify its decades-old mistake” of obstructing women’s reservation when it was in power. “But Congress lost the opportunity to script history and stand in support of women,” he remarked.

Modi claimed that those who opposed the Centre’s legislations on Friday were “taking women’s power for granted”.

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“But they are forgetting that the women of the 21st century are monitoring every event in the country,” the prime minister asserted. “They sense their intentions and are fully aware of the truth. Therefore, the opposition will surely be punished for the sin they have committed...

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