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Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of making a “U-turn” on the implementation of the women’s reservation law, the Congress on Monday (April 6, 2026) said the Prime Minister was attempting to use the issue for electoral gains ahead of Assembly elections in several States.
Congress general secretary (communications) Jairam Ramesh said the Prime Minister, while campaigning in Assam, had appealed for unanimous support to the women’s reservation legislation during the special session of Parliament, even though the measure had already been passed unanimously in 2023.
In a post on social media platform X, Mr. Ramesh said the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, 2023, which provides for 33% reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies, had been passed unanimously by Parliament in September 2023 and the Congress had demanded its implementation from the 2024 election itself.
“But the Modi Govt introduced a condition that the reservation will come into effect only after delimitation and census is completed. This is Article 334-A that had got inserted then. Now all of a sudden to divert public attention from the grave economic crisis and in order to influence voters in the five states the PM has decided that Article 334-A should be amended to do away with delimitation and census pre-requisite,” he said.
In Assam today during the election campaign, the Prime Minister urged unanimous support for the women's reservation bill in the special session of Parliament.
How much more bogus can he get?
The Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, 2023 was passed unanimously by Parliament in Sept… pic.twitter.com/oUomKcNPQz
“He has woken up after 30 months and done another U-turn. Now he is using this as an election issue,” Mr Ramesh added.
In a separate post, Congress MP Manickam Tagore claimed that the government was keen on carrying out delimitation on the basis of the 2011 Census to avoid data that will emerge from the caste census.
“Because once caste data is officially available, it will show: Other Backward Classes [OBCs] are the largest social group in India. And the natural democratic demand will be: 1. Proportional representation for OBCs 2. Sub-quota for OBC women within the 33% reservation,” Mr. Tagore said in a post on X, clarifying that this was his personal opinion.
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