Congress and its allies ‘celebrated’ setback to women’s 33% reservation push: BJP

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) connected Saturday (April 18, 2026) accused the Congress of hypocrisy and prioritising governmental powerfulness implicit sex equality and women’s empowerment, claiming that the enactment and its allies celebrated the denial of 33% practice to women successful Parliament.

At a property conference, a time aft the Constitution Amendment Bill proposing to summation the spot of the Lok Sabha and instrumentality preservation for women was defeated, BJP leaders and erstwhile Union Ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad and Smriti Irani said the Congress had a “feudal” mindset and that its allies undermined equitable representation, peculiarly impacting confederate States.