{"id":12795,"date":"2026-04-18T14:27:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=12795"},"modified":"2026-04-18T14:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:27:19","slug":"130353700-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=12795","title":{"rendered":"Row over women quota bill: BJP leaders protest against Rahul Gandhi in Delhi, burn effigies; 2 MPs detained | India News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\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-130353743,imgsize-127888,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/bjp-holds-protest-against-opposition-after-women39s-reservation-bill-collapse.jpg\" alt=\"Row over women quota bill: BJP leaders protest against Rahul Gandhi in Delhi, burn effigies; 2 MPs detained\" title=\"BJP holds protest against Opposition after Women's reservation bill collapse\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"BJP holds protest against Opposition after Women's reservation bill collapse\">BJP holds protest against Opposition after Women&#8217;s reservation bill collapse<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: BJP Lok Sabha MPs <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/hema-malini\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Hema Malini<\/a>, Bansuri Swaraj and Kamaljeet Sehrawat on Saturday led a protest march towards the residence of leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi in Delhi, a day after the 131st Constitution Amendment Bill on women\u2019s reservation failed to pass in the House, with the Congress-led INDIA bloc refusing to back the delimitation process linked to it.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>The BJP termed the Congress\u2019 stand \u201canti-women\u201d, raising slogans and holding placards after 230 opposition MPs voted against the bill, which required a two-thirds majority to be passed. In contrast, 298 members of the ruling NDA coalition supported it.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>The Congress clarified that it does not oppose women\u2019s reservation, but the delimitation exercise tied to the bill, which proposes increasing the strength of the Lok Sabha from the existing strength of 543 to 850 seats. <!-- -->The grand old party and its allies alleged that the exercise is aimed at \u201cweakening\u201d the representation of southern states in the Lower House of Parliament.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>Malini, an actor-turned-politician, said, \u201cThey (the opposition) did not let the Bill be passed, so we are protesting here. Women across the country are part of this campaign. Despite all our efforts yesterday, they blocked the Bill\u2026 We are deeply upset. Women are protesting nationwide.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>Swaraj, one of the BJP\u2019s seven Lok Sabha MPs from Delhi, where the party holds all seven constituencies, accused Gandhi and the INDIA bloc of \u201cbetraying\u201d women.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>\u201cThe entire opposition, especially LoP Gandhi, betrayed the women of this country yesterday. They backstabbed women. They want women\u2019s role to be limited to polling booths. When it came to political representation, they chose their own interests and now face the anger of women,\u201d she added.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/>Sehrawat, another BJP MP from Delhi, said the government wanted to implement the Women\u2019s Reservation Bill on a \u201cpriority\u201d basis, but the INDIA bloc voted to defeat the legislation.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>Swaraj and Union minister Raksha Khadse were later detained by the Delhi Police.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"25\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"27\"\/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address the nation at 8:30 pm and is expected to speak on the collapse of the 131st Constitution Amendment Bill, while targeting the opposition over its stand.<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/row-over-women-quota-bill-bjp-leaders-against-rahul-gandhi-in-delhi-burn-effigies-2-mps-detained\/articleshow\/130353700.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BJP holds protest against Opposition after Women&#8217;s reservation bill collapse NEW DELHI: BJP Lok Sabha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30761,30762,724,723,19126,719,720,721,722,14753,21675],"class_list":["post-12795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-131st-constitution-amendment-bill","tag-bjp-lok-sabha-mps","tag-breaking-news","tag-google-news","tag-hema-malini","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-today-news","tag-women-empowerment","tag-womens-reservation-bill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12795","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=12795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}