Modi Government Suffers Setback as Constitutional Amendment Defeated in Parliament

Modi Government Suffers Setback as Constitutional Amendment Defeated in Parliament

It clubbed an already passed amendment on women’s reservation with the controversial amendment to delimit electoral boundaries. The ploy flopped.

Women’s Reservation Bill 2026: Modi’s Delimitation Trap Exposed

The opposition’s move to defeat of the 131st Constitution Amendment Bill was not at all about women’s reservation. It was about stopping the government from redrawing India’s electoral map under cover of empowerment.

Modi preservation through delimitation, not women's reservation: Cong holds PCs to 'expose' govt

New Delhi, Apr 21 (PTI) Upping the ante against the Centre after a Constitution amendment bill was defeated in the Lok Sabha, the Congress held 26 press conferences across the country on Tuesday and alleged that the real purpose of the just-concluded special sitting of Parliament was Prime Minister Narendra Modi's preservation through delimitation, not women's reservation.Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said 26 …

A hoax in the name of Women’s Reservation?: A weekly round-up on Constitution First

Yesterday, the headlines across many major dailies flashed a title that raised questions among many well-reasoned readers – ‘Opposition stands, Women’s bill falls’, suggested one of India’s most read papers, with 1.6 million readers, referring to the defeat of the passage of the 131st Constitution Amendment Bill and two other legislations. Bundled together, these bills, different from the Women’s Reservation Bill already passed in 2023, sought t…

Women’s Reservation Bill and BJP’s Diabolical Game

The past conduct and ideological moorings of the BJP, as those of its parent body, the RSS, reflect not just extreme and exclusivist views on women’s participation but are arguably distinctly misogynistic THE Women’s Reservation Bill, aiming for 33% of Lok Sabha seats for women, was passed in 2023. But it has yet to be implemented. Despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s crocodile tears when the amendment to the bill did not pass, the fact is tha…

Amendment to Women’s Reservation Bill: BJP’s hyperbole on women

The Women’s Reservation Bill aiming at 33% of Lok Sabha seats for women in Lok Sabha was passed in 2023, but was not implemented so far. Despite the crocodile tears of PM Narendra Modi when the amendment to the bill fell, the fact is that since it was passed in 2023, it could have been implemented in the 2024 elections as well, with necessary steps in the direction. Now the amendments, which needed 2/3 of the votes, fell through as the oppositio…