Shimla, April 18 -- Himachal Pradesh PWD Minister Vikramaditya Singh has alleged that the Women's Reservation Bill brought by the BJP was aimed more at political gains than genuine women empowerment, and accused the ruling party at the Centre of attempting to alter the democratic balance through delimitation.

He said Congress had made it clear that it is willing to support the bill passed in 2023 if the government delinked it from the Delimitation Bill it had introduced along with the Constitution Amendment Bill.

"Their version carried political motives aimed at altering the democratic structure," he said.

He said the opposition raised concerns over the linkage of reservation with delimitation, arguing that it could disproportionately ...