BJP chief Khushbu Sundar asserted that girls are the spine of our nation (File)
New Delhi:
A Invoice to make sure the reservation of 33 per cent of seats for girls within the Lok Sabha and state assemblies has been cleared by the Union cupboard this night throughout a key assembly chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sources stated.
BJP chief Khushbu Sundar asserted that “nari-shakti is the best way ahead”.
What a historic second!! Ladies reservation invoice cleared! The place our PM @narendramodi ji is working for girls empowerment, others preserve bringing ladies down. Nari shakti is the best way ahead. Ladies should be within the forefront, they’re the again bone of our nation. Solely a real son of…
— KhushbuSundar (@khushsundar) September 18, 2023
“What a historic second!! Ladies’s reservation invoice cleared! The place our PM Narendra Modi ji is working for girls’s empowerment, others preserve bringing ladies down. Nari shakti is the best way ahead. Ladies should be within the forefront, they’re the spine of our nation. Solely a real son of the nation understands the ache of a lady. And our Honourable PM proves that but once more. Heartfelt thanks to Pradhan Mantri ji. Ladies of our nation are indebted to you for all the time standing by her and permitting her to develop and fly excessive,” Ms Sundar stated.
Reacting to this, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh stated that it has been a long-standing demand of the Congress to implement ladies’s reservation, as he replugged a earlier put up chronicling the “historical past behind the transfer”.
It has been a long-standing demand of the Congress occasion to implement ladies’s reservation. We welcome the reported resolution of the Union Cupboard and await the main points of the Invoice. This might have very properly been mentioned within the all-party assembly earlier than the Particular Session, and… https://t.co/lVI9RLHVY6
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) September 18, 2023
“It has been a long-standing demand of the Congress occasion to implement ladies’s reservation. We welcome the reported resolution of the Union Cupboard and await the main points of the Invoice. This might have very properly been mentioned within the all-party assembly earlier than the Particular Session, and consensus may have been constructed as a substitute of working beneath a veil of secrecy,” he wrote on X, previously Twitter.
Mr Ramesh’s tweet drew sharp criticism from Ms Sundar, who joined the BJP from Congress in 2020. “Those that sit within the Opposition attempting to take credit score on Ladies’s Reservation Invoice ought to be ashamed of themselves. They did nothing however make noise. Empty vessels make noise. What did you do when in energy for therefore a few years??” she requested.
A lot wanted invoice that must have been handed a very long time in the past. https://t.co/W4zdbNIDHt
— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (@kiranshaw) September 18, 2023
Entrepreneur Kiran Mazumdar Shaw stated that the Ladies’s Reservation Invoice is a “much-needed invoice that must have been handed a very long time in the past”.
