3 hours ago
3
ARTICLE AD BOX
NEW DELHI: Union curate for parliamentary affairs Kiren Rijiju connected Tuesday shared a post-session speech with Congress MP Shashi Tharoor to sharpen his onslaught connected the absorption implicit the decision of the Women’s Reservation Amendment Bill, claiming adjacent Tharoor "agreed" with his remark that the Congress could beryllium seen arsenic anti-women."We took a picture. Shashi Tharoor, erstwhile the parliament league was over, successful the hall, helium told me… but nary pistillate volition see Shashi Tharoor is opposed to women. I said, yes, nary 1 volition telephone you women’s opposition," Rijiju said successful an interrogation with ANI."That was what helium meant. That Congress tin beryllium anti-women, but women volition not see Shashi Tharoor arsenic anti-women… helium agreed successful a way," helium added.The curate besides deed retired astatine absorption parties for opposing the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, which sought to supply 33% preservation for women successful Parliament and authorities assemblies from the 2029 Lok Sabha polls.“Who would deliberation that idiosyncratic would ballot against women? We don’t person a two-thirds majority… But who would person thought adjacent successful a imagination that Congress, TMC, Samajwadi Party would ballot against women?” Rijiju said.He added that absorption parties "will person to look the choler of women" for opposing the bill, arguing that the contented should not beryllium viewed done a governmental lens. Rijiju rejected the opposition’s statement that the measure unfairly linked women’s preservation to delimitation.
"They accidental delimitation was linked… It is written successful the 2023 instrumentality that delimitation volition instrumentality spot aft the 2026 census and it volition beryllium implemented. Why was it not opposed then?" helium said.He besides dismissed concerns astir the interaction connected confederate states, saying the authorities had clarified that spot numbers would summation uniformly crossed states, on with 33% preservation for women.On demands to instrumentality women’s preservation wrong the existing spot of 543 Lok Sabha seats, Rijiju argued that the existent strategy is outdated."Seats were fixed connected the ground of 1971 population… immoderate seats person 30 lakh oregon 40 lakh voters. Is this however ideology should work?" helium said, adding that population-to-seat ratios successful India are acold higher than successful galore different countries.Opposition parties had opposed the Constitution Amendment Bill successful the Lok Sabha connected April 17. In the division, 298 MPs voted successful favour portion 230 voted against, starring to its defeat.Following this, the authorities said it would not prosecute 2 different linked bills. The proposals had aimed to summation the Lok Sabha’s spot from 543 to 816 seats, with 33% preservation for women, alongside delimitation based connected the 2011 census.
