New Delhi: Congress leader KC Venugopal on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-led government over the Women's Reservation Bill asking who stopped the Centre from bringing the Bill for nine years.
"(BJP stalwarts) Lalkrishna Advani and Atal Bihari Vajpayee voted against the Women's Reservation Bill in 1989. Who stopped you from bringing this Bill for nine years? You lost nine and a half years. Where is the sincerity? You have a political calculation to bring this Bill," charged KC Venugopal in the Rajya Sabha during a discussion on the Women's Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha.
The Women's Reservation Bill was passed by the Lok Sabha on Wednesday after which the Bill was introduced in the Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of the Parliament, by Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal.
"Why are you (government) running away from the caste census? We are proudly saying out of our four Chief Ministers, three are from OBCs, " added Venugopal, who represents Rajasthan in the Rajasthan.
Venugopal also lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not speaking about the situation in Manipur and questioned that the BJP was speaking about women's empowerment.
