The Trinamool Congress on Thursday (April 16, 2026) said amendments being brought in for implementing the women’s reservation Act were actually a “disguise” for altering the electoral process of the country and bringing in delimitation of constituencies.
Questioning the “hurriedness” in bringing in the Constitutional Amendment Bill for implementation of the women’s quota, TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, while participating in the discussion in the Lok Sabha, said her party demanded that 50% of seats should be reserved for women, because Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee had given more than 33% of seats to women whenever there had been an electoral contest.
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She questioned as to why the government had suddenly brought the Bill. “Our leader Ms. Banerjee had demanded 28 years ago in this very House that women’s reservation be enacted. The budget session began on January 28 and if this was so important for you, then why wasn’t this law brought in before”.
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