The government failed to get the Constitution (131st) Amendment Bill related to Women’s Reservation Bill passed in the Lok Sabha. It had a provision to increase the seats of Parliament from 543 to 850.
After a long and in depth discussion on the Women’s Reservation and Delimitation Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha, the voting process was completed. A total of 528 MPs voted, in which 298 members voted in favor of the bill and 230 voted against it. However, the two-thirds majority i.e. 352 votes required to pass the Constitutional Amendment Bill could not be obtained.
On this, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla announced that this bill has failed to garner the necessary support, hence the further legislative process cannot be taken forward. After this, the government decided not to hold voting on the other two related bills either.
Amit Shah said in a post on X that “A very strange scene was witnessed in the Lok Sabha. The Constitution Amendment Bill necessary for the Nari Shakti Vandana Act was not allowed to pass by the Congress, TMC, DMK and Samajwadi Party. The demolition of the bill that gave 33% reservation to women, celebrating it and cheering about it is truly condemnable and beyond imagination.
Now the women of the country will not be able to get 33% reservation in the Lok Sabha and the Legislative Assemblies, which was their right. The Congress and its allies have done this not for the first time, but repeatedly. Their thinking is neither in the interest of women nor of the country. I want to tell them that this insult to Nari Shakti will not stop here, it will go far. The opposition will have to face the ‘anger of women’ not only in the 2029 Lok Sabha elections, but at every level, every election and everywhere.”
