* BJP deprived women of 33 % quota: Bhalla
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 18: JKPCC chief, Tariq Hameed Karra today said that Prime Minister Modi has no moral right to continue in the office and should ‘step down’ following failure of his Government to get through the ‘ill –conceived’ constitutional amendment bill, aimed at delimitation through backdoor under the garb of women quota.
Addressing a rally of party workers at Bahu in Jammu, JKPCC chief said that Modi Government failed to get through its ill conceived constitutional amendment bill aimed at delimitation, as per their own mechanical formula, under the garb of women reservation, which has already been unanimously passed in 2023 but not implemented, against the demand of Congress and opposition, from 2024 Lok Sabha Elections.
The entire opposition realised the nefarious designs of BJP Government behind the move and opposed, as a result the official move of the Modi Government failed on the ‘floor of the house’.
“As the Modi Government has been defeated in securing the required number to pass through the bill, the Prime Minister has no moral right to continue in office and must step down,” Karra asserted.
He said Congress is pioneer in bringing reservation for women by implementing 33 percent quota in Panchayat Raj Institutions in the country and first passing Women Reservation Bill in Rajya Sabha in 2013 but couldn’t succeed due to lack of full support by BJP that time, but it unanimously supported in passing Women Reservation Bill in the Parliament in 2023, rather demanding its implementation from 2024 Lok Sabha Elections. It was BJP which denied reservation to women in the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections on the plea that delimitation shall be done after completion of ongoing 2021 census, followed by implementation of women reservation in 2029.
Why such a move was brought as a U- turn of Modi Government with an ulterior purpose to dilute the strength of southern states, with an eye on future elections by using slogan of women reservation and also to further delay caste census. He said Congress would continue to fight for the basic rights, dignity and status, snatched arbitrary, unilaterally and unconstitutionally by Modi Government in August 2019.
Raman Bhalla lashed out at the Modi Govt for befooling the women and depriving them of their 33 percent quota out of existing 543 Lok Sabha seats, in the last Lok Sabha elections held in 2024,as the law for their reservation was already passed unanimously in 2023. He said that to delay the women reservation on the plea of completion of census-2021 and fresh delimitation after that, and to postpone its implementation till 2029 exposed the BJP.
The women folk must ask BJP why it delayed and denied reservation to them in 2024 Lok Sabha elections and now trying to exploit them and befool them, he added.
The rally was also addressed by senior leaders- Yogesh Sawheny, Ved Mahajan, T S Tony, Satish Sharma, Dwarka Choudhary, Kamal Singh, Sonu Dogra, Zahida Khan, Parveen Akhtar and others.
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