India, April 14 -- The push to roll out a 33% reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies -- Parliament is to meet later this week to take up the matter -- is in keeping with the Opposition's demand for an early implementation of the law passed in 2023, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the Nari Shakti Vandan Sammelan in Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, on Monday.

Parliament is on the verge of creating history as it takes up the amendments to the women's reservation bill for discussion and passage, he added, in comments that were widely seen as countering arguments from opposition parties that the amendments are being introduced in the middle of state polls to benefit the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

" In 2023 when the bil...