LUCKNOW, May 1 -- Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Aradhna Mishra on Thursday challenged the BJP to appoint a woman as the party's national president and expressed a strong objection to the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government attempting to link reservation for women with delimitation.

Mishra expressed this view in the state assembly during a special session on women's empowerment.

"The BJP is accusing the Opposition, but it fails to explain why the Women's Reservation Bill, passed into law in 2023 with the Congress's support, has remained unimplemented till date. Now, it is being asserted that reservation will be granted only after the delimitation of Lok Sabha constituencies but, delimitation bears absolutely no relati...