Namo touches Opposition's raw nerve -- says "You take Credit of Women Quota ...... I am offering you a blank cheque of credit" ::::: "Govt intention is to 'take away' the protections offered by Indira Gandhi and Vajpayee"

“We don’t want credit. You pass it, and I will issue an advertisement using public money publishing all your photos. 

I am offering you a blank cheque of credit,” PM Narendra Modi asserted while intervening in Lok Sabha during discussion on Women Bill and other related matters.

A sensitivity will be infused here. The Parliament will be enriched,” he said. “There is no dearth of experienced and capable women in the country.” “As the mother of democracy, this is India’s cultural commitment,” the prime minister said.

Modi said that a developed India does not mean only good infrastructure but participation of women in policy making. In his address he also accused sections of the Opposition of raising “technical points and excuses” to delay the women’s reservation move.

He maintained such tactics would no longer mislead women. He said the issue had remained stalled for nearly three decades without progress and urged all parties to support it now.  

Three key bills have been tabled:

The Constitution (One Hundred and Thirty-First Amendment) Bill, 2026

The Delimitation Bill, 2026

The Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026  

The Constitution (One Hundred and Thirty-First Amendment) Bill, 2026 and the Delimitation Bill, 2026 have been tabled by Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026 by Home Minister Amit Shah. 

The main focus of this session is the Constitutional Amendment Bill aimed at the implementation of 33 per cent reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies.  

Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Arvind Sawant stated concerns over the proposed Delimitation Commission while speaking on the Women’s Reservation Bill on Thursday. 

He questioned in Lok Sabha that the connection between women’s reservation and the delimitation process, pointing out that the Commission would have the authority to determine its own procedures.  

The PM called upon members to pass the draft law unanimously, adding that the Bills should not be weighed on a political balance, as half the population of the country had a right to be in Parliament. 

Muslim quota demand sets off clash in Lok Sabha as women’s reservation, delimitation Bills are introduced  

As the Lok Sabha took up the draft laws on Thursday a row erupted in the House when Samajwadi Party (SP) MP Dharmendra Yadav demanded reservation for Muslim and OBC women.

His statement drew strong opposition from the Treasury Benches, with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju saying that reservation based on religion is against the Constitution.

After the Bills were introduced, Congress MP K C Venugopal said his party had asked the government to implement women’s reservation in 2024 itself and asked why the government did not do so. 

Venugopal said the government itself had introduced the 2023 Bill and was now saying that women’s quota cannot be implemented as per the law. He said the intention was to take away the protections offered by Indira Gandhi and Atal Bihari Vajpayee — a reference to the 1976 and 2001 freeze on delimitation — and hijack the process. 

Venugopal demanded that the Bills be withdrawn.