Roll out women’s quota on current LS strength: Cong

The Congress Sunday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of shedding “crocodile tears” over the issue of reservation for women and demanded that the quota be implemented immediately on the current strength of the Lok Sabha.

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The Opposition party also asserted that what was defeated in the Lok Sabha April 17 was not the women’s reservation Bill but delimitation. Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate pointed out that the women's reservation Bill was passed unanimously by Parliament September 21, 2023, and it is part of the Constitution now.

“The women’s reservation Bill was not defeated, the delimitation, which you (government) wanted to thrust on the nation, was defeated,” she said at a press conference here.

“PM Modi is shedding crocodile tears and hiding behind the women's reservation Bill,” she said. Shrinate displayed a cartoon, which showed the PM having a basket with 543 mangoes, but refusing to give women a 33 per cent share and telling them that he can give them their share only if he can increase the number to 850, which the opposition is not letting him do.