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NEW DELHI: A agreed absorption connected Friday spurned PM Narendra Modi's last-minute entreaty for a "conscience vote" and location curate Amit Shah's connection to constitute into the women's preservation measure that Lok Sabha seats successful each states volition spell up by 50% to inflict connected govt its archetypal legislative decision successful 12 years, with the projected instrumentality failing to get the required two-thirds ballot successful the House. Opposition parties - which had alleged that the measure promising women's quota from 2029 was a ploy to chopped the south's practice successful LS, redraw the governmental representation to BJP's vantage and hold caste enumeration - remained unpersuaded by Shah's assertions that the value of confederate states successful LS volition marginally spell up nether the projected look and that govt was committed to behaviour caste count. The Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill received 298 votes successful enactment and 230 against. It needed astatine slightest 352 votes successful favour from the members contiguous successful the House for passage. With the centrepiece measure falling through, parliamentary affairs curate Kiren Rijiju said 2 different bills "intrinsically" linked to the main proposal, including 1 connected delimitation, would beryllium withdrawn. You volition person nary spot to fell successful elections, Shah tells oppnReplying to the statement connected the law amendment bills for women's preservation and delimitation, Union location curate Amit Shah said 2 superior reasons down the bills were to guarantee a time-bound rollout of women's preservation by 2029 and to instrumentality successful existent tone the thought of "one person, 1 vote, 1 value". Shah said the Malkajgiri LS spot successful Telangana had much than 39 lakh voters, emphasising that 127 constituencies person much than 20 lakh voters.
He rejected the opposition's complaint that delimitation volition effect successful confederate states having little value successful LS. On average, an LS spot successful the southbound has acold less voters than those successful the north. On caste quota, Shah said, "BJP govt volition spell by the corporate consciousness of Parliament. Let determination beryllium nary doubt." For BJP, practice and information of radical (in legislatures) of the state is astir important, helium said, successful what marked a uncommon willingness to prosecute connected the issue. He, however, ruled retired quota for Muslims, saying it is violative of the Constitution. "We volition not let anyone to instrumentality this." Striking a combative enactment connected women's quota, the location minister, similar the PM had connected Thursday, warned absorption of a backlash. "If you bash not ballot successful enactment of the bill, it volition autumn through, but women of the state are seeing who is the obstacle successful their way. You volition person nary spot to fell successful elections.
Opposition volition look the wrath of women, not lone successful the 2029 LS elections but besides astatine each level, successful each election, and astatine each place.
" Later, helium took to X to berate the absorption for celebrating the decision of the bills. The astir melodramatic infinitesimal during his reply came erstwhile helium accepted the request of Congress MP K C Venugopal to constitute into the measure that seats successful each authorities volition spell up by 50%. However, helium was speedy to cull Venugopal's different request that the women's preservation measure beryllium delinked from delimitation, saying it is an "enticing trap" to contradict quota to women successful 2029. He took head-on Rahul Gandhi's assertion astir Congress being a protagonist of OBC cause. "Congress is the astir anti-OBC party," Shah said listing decisions similar non-implementation of the recommendations of the Kalelkar Commission for OBC preservation nether Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi not acting connected the Mandal Commission's recommendations, and Rajiv Gandhi opposing the same. Congress ne'er made an OBC assemblage subordinate the Prime Minister portion BJP, successful Modi, has fixed the state a PM from highly backward caste, helium said. Congress and its allies successful the INDIA bloc person a past of scuttling legislative connection for the preservation 5 times since the thought was archetypal mooted during the P V Narasimha Rao govt, and it astatine times leant connected its allies to descend the proposal, helium said portion besides recalling the absorption party's basal implicit the Shah Bano verdict and triple talaq. He said Congress has reflexively opposed each signature initiatives of Modi govt - from scrapping of peculiar presumption for J&K to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
