New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) The introduction of three key bills in the special sitting of Parliament – Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill 2026, Delimitation Bill 2026 and Union Territories (Amendment) Bill could have set in motion – one of India’s most consequential electoral reforms since Independence but the amendment failed to fetch two-thirds majority and eventually fell through in the House, stalling all three of them in one stroke. The Women’s Reservation Bill, which could have becom…
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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…
Gandhinagar, April 19 (IANS) Any force that opposes women has never survived and will not survive in the future, Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel said on Sunday, as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders accused the Congress and its allies of blocking the ‘Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam Amendment Bill’ in Parliament. Addressing a press conference at the State BJP headquarters in Gandhinagar, Chief Minister Patel said the proposed legislation was “not merely a law but a decisive step toward…
New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday reiterated the Union government’s resolve to provide 33 per cent reservation for women in Parliament and state Assemblies despite a bill over the quota getting defeated in Lok Sabha a few days ago. Addressing an election rally in Tamil Nadu, the Defence Minister said the 33 per cent women’s reservation law was not allowed to be passed in Parliament by the DMK, Congress, Trinamool Congress and the Communist parties.”I want to ass…
Patna, April 19 (IANS) The Rashtriya Lok Morcha (RLM) on Sunday announced that it will on April 22 organise protest marches across all party district headquarters across Bihar against what it described as a “reprehensible act” by the Mahagathbandhan parties, who opposed the Women’s Reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha. This comes as the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026, was defeated in the Lok Sabha on Friday after it failed to get enough votes to pass. In a statement, the RLM, BJP’s ally …
Mumbai, April 19 (IANS) Popular television actress Rupali Ganguly expressed her anger over the Women’s Reservation Bill’s defeat in the Lok Sabha.The ‘Anupamaa’ actress published a video on social media, voicing her disappointment. She was heard saying, “A country where Mother Durga is worshipped, where we consider women as power, where there is a woman in every house, who takes care of the whole family alone. In that country, for the past 30 years, a women’s reservation bill has been pending….
New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) The Central government on April 16 introduced three important Bills in the Lok Sabha to fast-track the implementation of 33 per cent reservation for women in Parliament and state Assemblies. These were the Constitution (One Hundred and Thirty-First Amendment) Bill, 2026, the Delimitation Bill, 2026, and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026.The move aimed to ensure that women could benefit from the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam as early as the 2029 general e…
Chennai, April 18 (IANS) Actor-politician Kamal Haasan has called for the immediate implementation of 33 per cent reservation for women in Parliament and State Assemblies, strongly opposing any move to link the measure with delimitation. Reacting after the fall of the delimitation-linked 131st Constitutional Amendment Bill, Haasan said a Private Member’s Bill has now been introduced by Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament P. Wilson to provide women’s reservation with…
New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) Reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation following the failure of the Women’s Reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha, former IPS officer and ex-Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry, Kiran Bedi, said on Saturday that the Prime Minister’s messaging has rekindled hope. Taking to the social media platform X, Kiran Bedi wrote, “The PM’s messaging has rekindled hope. Perhaps women will claim their rightful space in State Assemblies and Parliament well…
New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday defended the proposed amendments to the ‘Nari Shakti Vandan’ Act while launching a sharp attack on opposition parties for blocking what he described as a historic step towards women’s empowerment.In an address to the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi acknowledged that the government could not secure the constitutionally mandated two-thirds majority in Parliament to pass the Constitution Amendment Bill linked to women’s re…