Union Home MinisterAmit Shahon Friday lambasted the opposition after theConstitutional Amendment Billon Women Reservation failed to pass in the Lok Sabha. The Home Minister accused opposition parties including the Trinamool Congress (TMC), DMK, and Samajwadi Party (SP) of not allowing the passage of the necessary bill for the Nari Shakti Vandhan Act, adding that their mindset is neither in the interest of women nor of the country. The government had tabled three bills on Thursday, including the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill to tweak the women's quota law, the Delimitation Bill, and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill to implement the proposed amended women's reservation act in Union territories of Delhi, Puducherry, and Jammu and Kashmir.
After two days of marathon discussions in Lok Sabha during which MPs representing both the government and the opposition participated in the debate on the three bills, with the last speaker being Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday, the proposed legislatures were taken up for voting. Since it was a constitutional amendment, the government required at least a two-thirds majority to pass the bill, which it failed to garner. When put to vote in the Lower House, 298 members voted in support of the bill, while 230 voted against it.
Out of the 528 members who voted, the bill required 352 votes to secure a two-thirds majority required for the passage of a Constitution amendment bill in the Lok Sabha.
Soon after the government failed to pass the historic women's quota amendment bill, Amit Shah took to X and said, "Today, a very strange scene was witnessed in the Lok Sabha. The Congress, TMC, DMK, and Samajwadi Party did not allow the passage of the necessary Constitution Amendment Bill for the Nari Shakti Vandan Act. Rejecting the bill that would give women 33% reservation, celebrating it, and raising victory slogans is truly reprehensible and beyond imagination."
"Now, the women of the country will not get the 33% reservation in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies, which was their right. The Congress and its allies have not done this for the first time, but have done it repeatedly. Their mindset is neither in the interest of women nor of the country. I want to tell them that this insult to Nari Shakti will not stop here; it will go far. The opposition will have to face the 'anger of women' not only in the 2029 Lok Sabha elections, but at every level, in every election, and at every place," the Home Minister said.
The Congress and its allies did not allow the passage of the essential bill, which would have given 33 per cent reservation to women in Lok Sabha and state/UT assemblies, he added.
The Home Minister also warned the Congress and other parties which opposed the bill saying that this insult to “Nari Shakti” will travel far and wide. "The opposition will have to face the wrath of women, not only in the 2029 Lok Sabha elections but at every level, in every election, and at every place," Shah said.
According to the bill, Lok Sabha seats were to be increased to a maximum of 850 from the current 543 to "operationalise" the women's reservation law before the 2029 parliamentary polls, following a delimitation exercise based on the 2011 Census.
Seats were also to be increased in states and UT assemblies to accommodate 33 per cent reservation for women.
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