Failure of Constitution amendment is failure of demarcation, not reservation for women: Opposition

New Delhi: The victorious opposition hailed the failure of the Constitution Amendment Bill as a failure of delimitation and not of women’s reservation.After the opposition won the vote, congress leader Rahul Gandhi Spoke to TMC heir apparent and MP Abhishek Banerjee and thanked him for his support. There are fears that only a few of the TMC’s 28 MLAs may be present in the Assembly due to the Bengal campaign. But the TMC fielded 21 MPs after repeated requests from leaders of the Indian group who impressed them deeply Mamata Banerjee Participating in debates and voting will be important to defeat the Modi government’s delimitation plans. According to sources, Banerjee told Rahul that “the tide is turning against the BJP”.Akhilesh Yadav termed it a malicious setback by the BJP.RSP’s NK Premachandran said the bill’s failure to pass showed that the BJP must consult with the opposition on important issues affecting the country. “This failure is not a failure of quotas for women, it is a failure of backdoor demarcation,” he said.Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of maliciously linking women’s quota to the delimitation of the 2011 census. “But his hollow attempt to pass himself off as a female savior failed today,” she commented. Priyanka said that if these three bills are passed in Parliament, India’s democracy will not survive.Rahul Gandhi said: “They are using unconstitutional tricks in the name of women to undermine the Constitution.” Congress whip Manikam Tagore said: “We have defeated arrogance.”Communist Party of India lawmaker Sandosh Kumar said the government’s failure to legislate showed that any attempt to change the balance of representation in the country was met with strong opposition. He said women in the country must see clearly the BJP’s move to delay women’s quota by linking it to census and delimitation. “This defeat is similar to what we saw during the farmers’ movement, when people’s unity forced the government to repeal the farm laws.“DMK president MK Stalin, who is leading the protests in Tamil Nadu, said the party is concerned about the issue of delimitation, which “needs to be carefully considered to ensure fairness, especially for the southern states”. He said the government should delink women quota from delimitation.