New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah Addressing the Lok Sabha on the Women’s Reservation Bill on Friday, she accused the Congress-led opposition of supporting the legislation with “ifs and buts”.He also described the opposition’s objection to delimitation as opposition to increase in SC/ST seats.Here are some of Amit Shah’s popular quotes:
- “No one is opposing reservation for women. But, if we look closely, all members of the INDI alliance are opposing it with ‘ifs and buts’.”
- “Opposition to delimitation means opposition to increase in SC/ST seats.”
- “Nearly 133 MPs spoke in the House on this important constitutional amendment, 56 of them women, which in itself will set a record.”
- “I assure them that if they support our demarcation, the value of every vote will be equal across districts.”
- “If we implement women’s reservation on the basis of 543 seats, then 13 seats will be reserved for women in Tamil Nadu and 26 seats will be reserved.”
- “If we had implemented women’s reservation as per the 2011 census, the number of parliamentary seats would have been reduced by six. But we are not doing that. We are adding 50 per cent seats to each state.”
- “Even then (Emergency), it was the Congress party that deprived the people of the country of their right to demarcate borders, and it is the Congress party that has deprived them of their right to delimit borders today.”
- “To ensure that confusion exists in the minds of 1.4 billion Indians, I would like to make it clear that the Narendra Modi Cabinet has decided to conduct a caste census alongside the 2026 Census.”
