Amaravati, April 17 (PTI) YSRCP supremo YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday said the women’s reservation bill losing out in the Lok Sabha ended up rendering justice neither to South India nor women.
A Constitution Amendment Bill to implement reservation for women in legislatures in 2029 and increase the number of seats of the Lok Sabha was defeated on Friday in the Lower House on Friday.
“Opposing parties should seriously question themselves; what have they achieved…. justice is rendered neither to the south nor the women!” the former Andhra Chief Minister in a post on X.
While the reality is that the number of Lok Sabha seats would come down for South India in the Parliament (through delimitation), he decried that the “women’s reservation bill has been postponed.” “If 2026 census were to come the situation would be worse off for the south, further penalised for bring (sic) discipline in the matters of family planning,” he added.
Meanwhile, Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president YS Sharmila asserted that the “illegitimate law” (delimitation) cunningly laced under the garb of women’s reservation in legislative bodies has “collapsed”.
“BJP’s evil plan under the garb of women’s reservation did not pass. The conspiracy to use women as the pretext to legitimise illegal laws could not stand,” Sharmila said in a Congress press release.
She alleged that the saffron party’s ‘tricks’ under ’empowerment mask’ have fizzled.
Andhra Pradesh BJP president PVN Madhav lashed out at the Congress party for opposing the women’s reservation bill, and said it “will reap the consequence”.
“It is unfortunate that Congress members (MPs) have voted against the women’s reservation bill and Lok Sabha constituencies delimitation introduced in the Parliament,” he said in a BJP press release.
He claimed that Congress has ‘exposed’ itself by opposing the bill. PTI STH SA
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