Lucknow, April 18 -- The CPI (ML) has stated that the failure of the 131st Constitutional Amendment Bill, which sought to increase the number of seats in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies, to pass in the Lok Sabha is a massive setback for the Modi government and the BJP.
UP state secretary Sudhakar Yadav issued a statement on Saturday asserting that the Modi government has manipulated the 33% women's reservation issue for a second time.
The first instance, he said was in September 2023 when the government passed the 106th Constitutional Amendment Bill, attaching conditions that left the law in limbo despite being enacted. At that time, it was tethered to the next census and subsequent delimitation, which rendered it practically meaningle...