Lucknow, April 7 -- Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday criticised the government's approach to implementing the Women's Reservation Bill, alleging that the plan is being based on outdated population data from the 2011 census.

Speaking to reporters, Yadav said, "They are going in for women's reservation based on outdated numbers. The proposal is for one-third reservation, but this one-third is being calculated on the basis of the 2011 census. Was the population the same in 2011? Since then, the population has increased. The reservation should reflect today's ground reality, not figures from 2011. It seems the BJP has already mapped out which areas to allocate to women using those old numbers... But why the rush? Why base it o...