Bihar polls months away, Congress calls for implementation of women's reservation law
The failure to implement the law will bring out women workers on streets in Bihar and other states, she said.
Suggesting political motives behind bringing the law for women's reservation, Lamba said the delay in its implementation was akin to betraying the women of India.
«The BJP government has been in full majority since 2014, but the women reservation law was passed just ahead of the 2024 elections. Why is it not being implemented? This is our next question to Modiji.
»Why women, who form half of India's population, are deprived of their rights to participate in the assembly and Lok Sabha?" she asked while addressing the media after Geeta Patel formally took over the reins of Gujarat Pradesh Mahila Congress.
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Lamba claimed the Mahila Congress gheraoed Parliament on March 10 demanding a discussion on women's reservation law in the ongoing session and its implementation.
«If the law is not enforced, women Congress workers will come out on the streets in every district to fight for their rights. The first state will be Bihar where assembly polls are due in 2025.
»If the BJP government at the Centre has the right intention then it should implement the women reservation law, and implement it from Bihar," she said.
Alleging that the Centre didn't intend to implement the reservation law, Lamba said Mahila Congress has decided to take up the fight for women's rights in every district of the country.
The women's reservation bill, which seeks to provide 33 per cent reservation to women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies, is officially known as the Constitution (106th Amendment) Act after President Droupadi Murmu gave her assent in September 2023.
Congress drew a blank in the Delhi assembly polls