New Delhi, April 19 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Manoj Tiwari said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was confident that the Constitution (One Hundred and Thirty-First Amendment) Bill, 2026, which linked women's reservation to delimitation, would pass in Parliament. He also accused the opposition of blocking its implementation and delaying women's empowerment.

Speaking on the issue, Manoj Tiwari said, "When this bill was introduced in Parliament, I was only looking at PM Modi's face. It took him a while to get up from his seat. He was confident that this bill would pass because all of them (opposition MPs) supported it in 2023."

He said the earlier version of the bill had received wide support. "When the Women's Reservation in 2023 was ...