India, April 19 -- The Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam 2023 was defeated on the floor of Parliament. The combined opposition raised the issue of the government laying an electoral trap for the non-Hindi-speaking states of the East and South, on delimitation and OBC reservation based on population figures. They even questioned the timing of the bill, given that assembly elections are being held in Tamil Nadu and Bengal. It was the view that delimitation was mixed up with the issue of women's reservation and the silence on OBC reservation. This entailed a caste census across the country and reservations based on actual figures. As Prime Minister Narendra Modi observed last week on the Jayanti of B. R. Ambedkar, Parliament is reconvening a spec...