India, April 17 -- Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday blamed the opposition for the failure of the constitutional amendment to the women's quota in the legislature, calling it an "insult to the Nari Shakti".

Shah said that the Congress and its allies blocked the passage of the essential constitutional amendment for the law granting 33 per cent reservation for women in legislatures and termed it "beyond imagination and reprehensible".

"Today, a very strange scene unfolded in the Lok Sabha. The Congress, TMC, DMK, and Samajwadi Party did not allow the passage of the essential Constitution Amendment Bill for the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam. Rejecting the bill that would grant 33% reservation to women, celebrating it, and raising vict...