Shillong, April 16 -- Hailing the BJP-led NDA government for tabling the Women's Reservation Bill in parliament, the Meghalaya unit of BJP on Thursday lampooned the previous non-BJP governments, saying that they had misused the issue of women's empowerment merely as an election slogan.
"The Women Reservation Bill has been gathering dust for a long time. Successive governments in the past have only spoken about it during election campaigns, and once the election was over, it became a closed chapter," Meghalaya BJP Chief Spokesperson, Mariahom Kharkrang told reporters.
"It is only after the BJP came to power that the party has ensured the Act was passed. We are waiting for the day it becomes law, as this will be a historic piece of legislat...