New Delhi, 12 April. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that calling a special session of Parliament amid elections in the states reinforces the perception that the government is rushing to implement the Women’s Reservation Act for “political gains”. In a letter to Prime Minister Modi, Kharge reiterated his demand that an all-party meeting be called after April 29 to discuss the delimitation issue. This delimitation is being linked to the amendments in the Nari Shakti Vandan Act, 2023.
This letter from Kharge has come in response to the Prime Minister’s letter in which he had mentioned a special session of Parliament from April 16 to discuss the Nari Shakti Vandan Act. The leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha, in a letter written to Modi on Saturday, said, “I have just received your letter regarding the special session of Parliament to discuss the Nari Shakti Vandan Act from April 16.” Kharge said, “As you know, the Nari Shakti Vandan Act, 2023 was passed unanimously by the Parliament in September 2023.
At that time, on behalf of the Indian National Congress, I had demanded that this important law should be implemented with immediate effect.” The Congress president said that though the Prime Minister mentioned in his letter that there was widespread consensus for its immediate implementation, yet he did not implement it. He said, “30 months have passed since then and now this special meeting has been called without taking us into confidence and your government is again asking for our cooperation without giving any information about the delimitation. You can understand that it would be impossible to have any meaningful discussion on this historic law without details of delimitation and other aspects.”
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