BJP’s Nishikant Dubey colleges Sonia Gandhi on Women’s Reservation Bill, reminds her how Congress fought with SP

On Wednesday (20 September), BJP MP Nishikant Dubey lambasted the Congress and its alliance companions for making an attempt to assert credit score for the Women’s Reservation Bill and demanding its quick implementation. Retorting to her calls for, Dubey launched a scathing assault towards Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi for elevating “unconstitutional demand”, double-speak, and tainted legacy over the difficulty. 

The BJP MP citing Articles 82, 243d, and 243t, asserted that the demand Sonia Gandhi made was unconstitutional. He famous that Article 82 has frozen delimitation and associated actions. He added that Gandhi’s demand to instantly give impact to the Women’s Reservation Bill could be in violation of Article 82. 

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In that case, it will have been struck down by the Supreme Court, the BJP MP mentioned, including that it will have amounted to injustice towards Women. 

Regarding Sonia Gandhi’s demand for an OBC sub-quota throughout the ladies’s reservation, Dubey cited the instance of Articles 243d and 243t which gave reservations to ladies in Panchayati Raj and Municipal elections. He famous that these payments have been introduced by earlier Congress governments and opposite to her current demand, her celebration didn’t allocate sub-quota for OBC.

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He additionally shredded the argument of offering reservations for Women in Rajya Sabha and Legislative Councils of States. He identified that post-independence, there has by no means been reservation given in Rajya Sabha and State Councils, and even to this date, there is no such thing as a reservation for Schedule Caste (SCs) and Schedule Tribes (STs) in these homes.

On the difficulty of the timeline relating to the implementation of the Women’s reservation, Dubey defined the constitutional stand citing Article 82. He defined the chronology noting that after the census is accomplished, which might be adopted by a delimitation course of, the Women’s Reservation Bill will come into impact, as per the constitutional scheme of issues.  

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He additional defined that the census train was hampered and delayed due to the once-in-a-century pandemic and the Modi authorities has the political will to take each invoice, scheme, or venture to its logical conclusion. 

Going forward, Dubey accused the Congress celebration of utilizing the Women’s Reservation Bill as a political instrument. He charged Sonia Gandhi with appropriating the credit score for the historic invoice stating that in her tackle she intentionally missed out on mentioning two ladies MPs who fought for this invoice – BJP’s Sushma Swaraj and CPI(M)’s Geeta Mukherjee.

Stating that the invoice the Congress celebration had moved earlier was a “wrong bill”, he mentioned, “I want to add that the bill you (Congress government) brought was wrong. Communist Party of India (CPI) leader Geeta Mukherjee and BJP MP Sushma Swaraj fought for this bill.” 

Attacking the Congress chief, Nishikant Dubey additional highlighted how the Congress ally tore its invoice and was subsequently manhandled by Congress. 

He reminded the home in regards to the conflict that broke out between Congress and its alliance accomplice Samajwadi Party within the Lok Sabha in 2012. The incident unfolded over a invoice for reservation for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes. 

He mentioned, “In this same House, when V Narayanasamy was presenting a bill on promotional quota for SCs/STs, Samajwadi Party’s Yashvir Singh snatched the bill from his hand and tore it down. In this same Parliament, Madam Sonia Gandhi ji was the first to come and hold him by his collar.”

He added, “At that time, I told her you are not our dictator, not a queen, you cannot resort to violence. Mulayam Singh himself said the SP MPs would not have survived had the BJP not been there.”