Rohtak, April 20 -- Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini on Sunday accused the Congress and its allies of working to 'disrobe' women's empowerment within the temple of democracy.

His comments came two days after the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill,2026, introduced to increase Lok Sabha seats to 850 and enable immediate delimitation based on the 2011 Census to implement 33% women's reservation, failed to pass in the lower house.

While addressing media persons in Rohtak, Saini compared the stand-off over the constitution bill between the Union government and opposition parties, with the infamous episodes in Mahabharata.

"The behaviour of opposition parties, including Congress, TMC, DMK, Samajwadi Party and others are like 'disrob...