New Delhi, April 16 -- Congress MP Manish Tewari on Thursday said that the Women's Reservation Bill is actually the Delimitation Bill dressed up as the former, which will marginalise the peripheral states and urged the government to propose 1/3rd reservation for women in the Parliament out of the existing 543 seats.

"This is not a Women's Reservation Bill; this is a Delimitation Bill dressed up as a Women's Reservation Bill. That's the principal objection. I am the greatest supporter of women's rights. Government should delink it from the Delimitation and bring a proposal before the House that out of the existing 543 seats in the Parliament, 1/3rd (181 seats) should be reserved for women, and it should be operationalised by 2029," he sai...