{"id":12446,"date":"2026-04-17T01:46:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=12446"},"modified":"2026-04-17T01:46:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:46:43","slug":"130320590-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=12446","title":{"rendered":"Government has turned \u2018nari\u2019 into \u2018nara\u2019: Akhilesh Yadav | India News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130320587,imgsize-466938,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/akhilesh-yadav.jpg\" alt=\"Government has turned \u2018nari\u2019 into \u2018nara\u2019: Akhilesh Yadav\" title=\"Akhilesh Yadav \" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Mocking <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/bjp\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">BJP<\/a> for turning \u201cnari\u201d into \u201cnara\u201d (slogan), SP chief <span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">Akhilesh Yadav<\/span> said the party was rushing with women\u2019s quota on the basis of Census 2011 because it wanted to delay the caste census, which would lead to the demand for an OBC subquota.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>Manish Tewari of Congress warned that delimitation had a constitutional safeguard but govt wanted to arrogate to itself the power to cherry-pick the census conducted from 1951 to 2011. Tewari also wondered \u201cwhat would happen\u201d when the strength of Lok Sabha was raised to 850 if functioning with 543 members was difficult.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>Akhilesh said, \u201cThe rights of backwards are being usurped.\u201d He demanded that the women\u2019s quota include a quota for OBC and Muslim women. <!-- -->He said PM Narendra Modi called himself an OBC for votes but was silent on reservation for them.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>TMC\u2019s Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar questioned the \u201chaste\u201d on the quota bill, calling it a cover to alter the electoral process and harm democracy. She expressed concerns that the proposed delimitation commission would be \u201cauthoritarian just like EC\u201d.NCP\u2019s Amol Kolhe said his party supported the quota bill but opposed delimitation.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi of NC cited the delimitation in J&amp;K that he said was done to help BJP. He said other states would now feel J&amp;K\u2019s pain.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>Shiv Sena\u2019s Arvind Sawant accused BJP of hurting federal structure. Abhay Sinha of RJD demanded a subquota for OBC women even if the quota had to be raised to 50%. ET Mohammed Basheer of IUML, K Subbarayan of CPI, Malvinder Kang of AAP, Joba Majhi of JMM, Rajaram Singh of CPI (ML) and Asaduddin Owaisi of AIMIM also criticised govt.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/government-has-turned-nari-into-nara-akhilesh-yadav\/articleshow\/130320590.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Mocking BJP for turning \u201cnari\u201d into \u201cnara\u201d (slogan), SP chief Akhilesh Yadav said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2367,1122,724,15893,15896,723,719,720,721,722,22974],"class_list":["post-12446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-akhilesh-yadav","tag-bjp","tag-breaking-news","tag-caste-census","tag-delimitation","tag-google-news","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-today-news","tag-womens-quota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}