Jammu, April 19 -- Senior Congress leader and spokesperson Namrta Sharma today launched a verbal attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party for what she termed a "blatant and desperate assault on democracy under the guise of women's empowerment".
While speaking to the media here at a press conference, Ms Sharma said that the failure of the bill marks a decisive rejection of the BJP's attempt to weaponise women's rights to push through a politically motivated restructuring of India's electoral framework.
"The Indian National Congress has always stood unequivocally in support of women's reservation and continues to firmly back 33 per cent reservation in legislative bodies," she told the media.
She highlighted that when the 2023 law was passed, t...