The next steps for govt: Cabinet meet, campaign
NEW DELHI, April 18 -- The government on Friday sought to portray the Opposition as anti-women for its vote against the Constitution amendment bill in the Lok Sabha and readied an extensive pan-India campaign to drive home this message even as speculation mounted over an unusually scheduled cabinet meeting on Saturday.
Minutes after the 131st Constitution amendment bill failed to garner the required two-thirds majority in the Lok Sabha, NDA floor leaders rushed to a meeting chaired by BJP leader JP Nadda.
Outside Parliament, in the pouring rain, women BJP lawmakers shouted slogans against the Opposition and the Congress in particular. This appeared to set the template for the NDA's possible campaign targeting the Opposition.
"Their [Opposition's] mindset is neither in the interest of women nor of the country," Union home minister Amit Shah said on X.
While there was speculation that the government was bringing a new bill that would hyphenate the women's reservation law with a new delimitation exercise that would be carried out only to change the shape of the constituency and not the numbers, senior leaders refused to comment on the matter.P7...
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