Lucknow, April 30 -- Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday criticised the opposition, saying they used religious reservation as a base to deprive women of their rights, underlining that there is no bigger treason than this.

Speaking at the special session of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly on the Women's Reservation Bill, he said that the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) was never opposed to the reservations of the Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), and Backwards Class communities but rather opposed the religious reservation.

"The BJP has never opposed the reservation for SC, ST, or Backward Classes. But we have always opposed religious reservation, and we will continue to oppose it," he said.

Further, he recalled t...