New Delhi, April 17 -- Congress MP Mallu Ravi said his party will support the Women's Reservation Bill only if it is delinked from the proposed Delimitation Bill.

Speaking to ANI on Thursday, Ravi said the Women's Reservation Bill was first passed in the Rajya Sabha during the tenure of Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh.

He added that the bill was the "brainchild of the Congress Party" and accused the BJP of trying to claim credit.

Congress MP said, "The Women's Reservation Bill was passed in the Rajya Sabha during the tenure of Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh. Later, the same bill was cleared in the Lok Sabha in 2003, unanimously. This means that Congress and other opposition parties supported and passed it. However, it still needed to ...