Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy praised the collaborative efforts of opposition leaders, including Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge, in preventing the passage of the Women’s Reservation Act amendment in the Lok Sabha. The bill, requiring a two-thirds majority, failed to secure enough votes, with 298 MPs in favor and 230 against.
Revanth Reddy expressed gratitude to leaders like MK Stalin, Mamata Banerjee, Akhilesh Yadav, Sharad Pawar, Uddhav Thackeray, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Hemant Soren, Farooq Abdullah, Naveen Patnaik, Arvind Kejriwal, and Communist party leaders for standing against the bill. He emphasized the need to separate women’s reservation from delimitation and seat increment issues in the Lok Sabha.
The Chief Minister urged for a clear distinction between women’s reservation, national delimitation, and seat increment, advocating for the immediate implementation of women’s reservation in the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies without linking it to other legislative changes.
