Noida, April 16 -- Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Thursday hailed the Women's Reservation Amendment Bill as a historic milestone and attacked Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, accusing him of being "anti-women".

"Akhilesh Yadav is an enemy of women; he can never do any good to women, he is anti-women; that is why he is saying such things. When the issue of women's reservation is being discussed, he starts playing vote bank politics and demands separate reservation for Muslim women. The Women's Reservation Bill should not be obstructed," he told ANI.

Maurya said if the three bills taken up by Lok Sabha are passed, "half the population of this country is going to get 33% reservation from the 2029 Lok Sabha...