Gandhinagar: Reacting to the Congress and its allies obstructing the women’s reservation bill in Parliament, chief minister Bhupendra Patel said on Sunday that Opposition parties have insulted “naari shakti” and their “double-faced politics” stands exposed before people.Speaking to reporters at the state BJP headquarters, Patel said the Congress’ history of “negative politics” and “dynastic obsession” led them to derail the bill, which provides 33% reservation to women in Lok Sabha and assemblies. “Many people have worked only to promote dynastic politics. Under the leadership of PM Modi, people associated with the Congress culture are unable to tolerate the changes happening in the country,” Patel added. “On one hand, they talk about the welfare of women, and on the other hand, when the time comes to bring legal provisions to empower women, they strongly try to stop it. This double-faced politics of theirs has now been exposed before the people,” he added. The CM said that the Congress also opposed the ‘One Nation, One Election’ idea, Special Intensive Revision (SIR), Uniform Civil Code, Jan Dhan, Aadhaar, and digital payments initiatives. Raksha Khadse, Union minister of state for youth affairs and sports, and state BJP president Jagdish Vishwakarma also spoke to the media on the issue. Khadse pointed out that the bill was not meant to support or benefit any particular party but was for all women in the country, for the nation’s youth, and their future. “After delimitation, the number of Lok Sabha seats was expected to increase. Through this, PM Modi’s dream of bringing into politics one lakh youth, who do not belong to political families but to ordinary backgrounds, could have been fulfilled,” she said. Vishwakarma alleged that the Congress party was considering women merely as a vote bank. He termed the obstruction of the bill in Parliament as a “well-planned conspiracy.”
