New Delhi, April 17 -- Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday launched a sharp attack on Opposition parties in the Lok Sabha, accusing them of creating obstacles for early implementation of the Women's Reservation Act.

Amit Shah, who was replying to the debate in Lok Sabha on the three bills brought by the government to expedite women's reservation, said that in 1972, the then Prime Minister first brought a Delimitation Bill, increasing the number of seats from 525 to 545, and then froze them.

He stated that in 1976, during the Emergency, the 42nd Amendment was brought which halted delimitation in order to retain power.

"At that time too, the principal opposition party had deprived the people of the country of delimitation, and even t...