Jaipur: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party wanted to create a dispute between India and Bharat and this was the reason why they called a special session of the Parliament, but stopped it and brought the Women’s Reservation Bill.
“When the government called for the special session, there was no mention of the Women’s Reservation Bill. Discussions on changing the name of the country were doing rounds. They wanted to create a dispute between India and Bharat,” said Rahul Gandhi.
“The constitution says, ‘India that is Bharat…’. Later, they understood that the public would not accept this. Now that they had called for a special session, they needed to have some agenda. So, they brought up the Women’s Reservation Bill. We did support the bill, it was brought by Rajiv Gandhiji (Former Prime Minister) into the Panchayati system,” he added.
Rahul Gandhi started the election campaign with the worker’s conference in Rajasthan. In the workers’ conference in Jaipur, he promised that if the government comes to power at the Centre, women’s reservations will be given immediately.
It is worth mentioning that the Women’s Reservation Bill cleared its final legislative hurdle at the Rajya Sabha on Thursday with 214 members voting in support and none against.
