Kolkata, April 23 -- Trinamool Congress (TMC) vice president Jay Prakash Majumdar on Thursday launched a sharp attack on the Narendra Modi-led government in Centre over the Constitution Amendment Bill that sought to increase Lok Sabha seats and operationalise women's reservation law, alleging that it was a "tactical step" ahead of future elections.

Speaking to ANI, Majumdar said, "Modi knows in 2029 he'll be defeated by the people of India. So he is taking a tactical step, the Women's Bill, to increase the number of women parliamentarians, and you have to see that women's empowerment is not the sole idea of this bill. Women's empowerment, we have seen Mamata Banerjee has done in Bengal. She has reserved 50 per cent of the seats in local ...