India, April 20 -- Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta on Sunday said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Union government's effort to pass the women's reservation bill in the Lok Sabha was derailed by the Opposition, which "deliberately created arguments to prevent its passage."

Addressing a press conference, Gupta said the events of the past few days in Parliament were "deeply unfortunate" and amounted to an injustice to women's rights. "The women's reservation bill has been repeatedly introduced in Parliament over the past 30 years, but each time it has been stalled on one pretext or another-torn, suppressed, or even burned. This time too, the Opposition deliberately created various arguments to prevent its passage," she alleged.

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