Mumbai, April 20 (IANS) NCP(SP) Working President and MP, Supriya Sule, on Monday launched a scathing attack on the Central Government, questioning the delay in implementing the Women’s Reservation Bill. Speaking to reporters, Sule demanded to know why, despite the Bill being passed unanimously in 2023, women are still waiting for their 33 per cent representation in 2026.”This is a Delimitation Bill, not just reservation,” Sule exclaimed and expressed frustration over the linkage of women’s re…
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New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi, while participating in the debate on three bills on Friday, accused the Centre of “pushing its agenda” under the garb of the women’s reservation bill and claiming that this was merely a ‘façade’ unrelated to women’s reservation.”This is not a women’s reservation bill, and it has nothing to do with women’s empowerment. This is an attempt to change India’s electoral map under the guise of women’s rights. The…
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday clarified that the representation of the states in the southern part of India would not diminish after the delimitation exercise, rather their strength will increase in the Lok Sabha. He also underlined that the Cabinet has decided to include caste count in the census. In a response to the Opposition’s allegations that delimitation will be harmful for states like Tamil Nadu and Telangana, Union Minister Shah gave a state by sta…
New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Central government, alleging that the 2011 census is being used to pass the Women’s Reservation Bill, rather than the current caste-based census that is being conducted in the country.”What the government is proposing now has nothing to do with women’s reservation. This amendment is an attempted power grab using delimitation and gerrymandering”, Gandhi …
Haveri, Feb 14 (IANS) Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday once again lost his cool over repeated media queries regarding a possible leadership change and asked reporters not to raise the issue. He was speaking to the media in Haveri before attending a massive event organised to mark the completion of 1,000 days of the Congress-led government in the state.When questioned about the alleged leadership tussle, Siddaramaiah reacted sharply, saying, “I have already stated that I will abi…
Bhopal, Feb 13 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Friday said the census is the country’s largest and most important data process on the basis of which the strategies are prepared to take development to the last person in society.Chief Minister Yadav made this statement addressing the state-level conference at Kushabhau Thakre Convention Centre in Bhopal, which was attended by senior bureaucrats including Chief Secretary Anurag Jain and Additional Chief Secretaries and many othe…