Reacting to the introduction of girls’s reservation bill, Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) chief Ajay Rai stated it was nothing however an election stunt of the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP). The stated bill was launched within the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.
“For nine-and-a-half-years, this authorities didn’t do something and instantly it decides to introduce the ladies’s reservation bill within the election yr. This seems extra like ‘headline administration’. It was the then PM Rajiv Gandhi who had bought the ladies reservation in panchayat and concrete native physique polls handed and this fashioned the premise for the then PM Narasimha Rao in 1992-93 to implement the 33 per cent reservation for ladies which helped ladies take to accountable management positions in panchayat and concrete native physique polls,” Rai stated.
“It was the Congress which gave U.P. its first lady PM, President, chief minister, Lok Sabha speaker in contrast to the BJP and RSS who draw back from sending ladies to accountable positions,” he stated whereas speaking to the media in Lucknow.
One other state Congress chief CP Rai stated the Centre’s transfer was nothing however an eyewash. “The truth that this reservation received’t be efficient instantly and that there’s a lot to be performed earlier than it may be applied showcases how that is nothing however an election stunt,” Rai stated.