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Exercise was to create poll issue: Cong on women's reservation bill
Updated On: 22 September, 2023 12:15 PM IST | New Delhi | mid-day online correspondent
The women`s reservation bill to reserve one-third of the seats in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies for women received the parliamentary nod on Thursday as the Rajya Sabha unanimously voted in its favour
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Hitting out at the BJP a day after the women`s reservation bill was passed by Parliament, the Congress on Friday said delimitation and census were "poor excuses" for the postponement of the women`s quota and alleged that the entire exercise was to create an election issue, without actually implementing it.
The bill to reserve one-third of the seats in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies for women received the parliamentary nod on Thursday as the Rajya Sabha unanimously voted in its favour.
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