UNION Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday warned the Congress and other parties which opposed the women’s reservation amendment bill that this insult to “Nari Shakti” will travel far and wide. Slamming the Congress and its allies for the defeat of a Constitution amendment bill to implement 33 per cent women’s quota in legislative bodies before the 2029 Parliamentary polls, Shah on Friday said their mindset is neither in the interest of women, nor the country. “Rejecting the bill that would grant 33 per cent reservation to women, celebrating it, and raising victory cries over it was truly reprehensible and beyond imagination,” Shah said in a message on X after the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill failed to secure two-third majority during voting in the Lok Sabha on Friday night.

 

“Today, a very strange scene unfolded in the Lok Sabha as the Congress, TMC, DMK, and the Samajwadi Party did not allow the passage of the essential Constitution amendment bill, the ‘Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam’. “Now, the women of the country will not get 33 per cent reservation in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies, which was their right. The Congress and its allies have done this, not for the first time but repeatedly. Their mindset is neither in the interest of women, nor the country,” Shah said in the message in Hindi. “The Opposition will have to face the wrath of women, not only in the 2029 Lok Sabha elections but at every level, in every election, and at every place,” Shah said.