After bill defeat, government counters Congress ‘false narrative’ with FAQs

NEW DELHI: Govt connected Sunday released a acceptable of often asked questions connected its bill, present defeated successful Parliament, for fast-tracking women’s quota successful legislatures with a 50% hike successful Lok Sabha seats, arsenic portion of its run to debunk what it called a ‘false and misleading narrative’ by Congress and its allies.

Govt said delimitation was indispensable to instrumentality women’s reservation, and, successful airy of India’s colonisation surging to 140 crore from 54 crore successful 1971, it was successful the involvement of just practice to summation the fig of constituencies to 850. “No changes were projected to the Delimitation Commission Act. Any recommendations of the committee would necessitate parliamentary support and Presidential assent. Ongoing elections, including those successful states similar Tamil Nadu oregon West Bengal, would not beryllium affected, arsenic elections up to 2029 volition beryllium conducted nether the existent system,” it said. With confederate states starring the run against the bill, BJP sent MP Anurag Thakur to Karnataka, wherever helium claimed Congress had exposed its anti-women agenda.

“If misogyny was an Olympic sport, Congress would triumph a golden medal,” helium said, adding this marked the 5th clip Congress and its allies stalled women’s reservation. “The communicative claiming southbound India volition endure is simply a 100% lie; not a azygous confederate authorities would suffer adjacent a fraction of its proportional voice,” helium said. Congress spokesperson Jairam Ramesh said, “Modi govt is connected a harm power workout aft its humiliating decision successful LS connected April 17.

It has released a acceptable of FAQs and answers — not earlier introducing its measure but aft they failed to walk LS.” In answers to 14 questions, govt defended the amendments, noting the archetypal instrumentality provides that preservation for women beryllium implemented based connected delimitation aft the census post-2026. It said, “If govt had waited for the census and consequent delimitation, women would not person been capable to benefit... adjacent successful the 2029 elections...”

The connection to let 850 seats was based connected a proportional enlargement approach, govt said. It added that tiny states would spot a azygous 50% summation successful seats. With an expanded house, the fig of seats reserved for SCs and STs would person risen significantly, govt said. Rejecting the complaint that the measure was aimed astatine delaying caste census, govt said a time-bound workout for it had already begun.