Speaking in Lok Sabha, LoP Rahul Gandhi says, "...it is important that everyone understands. The BJP knew, they knew very clearly that this bill actually cannot be passed. They knew it.
"They're not stupid. They knew every opposition person would oppose it. This bill cannot be passed. This was a panic reaction. This was a panic reaction because the Prime Minister, at any cost, needed to send two messages. Number one, he needed to change the electoral map of India. And number two, he needed to send a message again that he is pro-women.
"Why he is doing that, I will leave to your imagination. I will leave it to your imagination...The truth is the magician has been caught. The magician of Balakot, the magician of demonetisation, the magician of Sindoor has suddenly got caught...".
Meanwhile, on Pakistan reacting to the PoK provision in India's Delimitation Bill, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said:
“On the delimitation exercise, the internal matters of India are internal matters of India, and we reject any attempts to intrude into them or make any such remarks.”
BJP leader Boora Narsaiah Goud on Friday said that one of the main highlights of the Delimitation Bill is the allocation of seats in the Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK).
This bill will enable PoK to access their right to vote, and their representatives will be able to attend the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
"The most important part we are missing is the provision in the Delimitation Bill, which is the allocation of the seats in the PoK. It is the dream of every Indian irrespective of caste, creed or religion, to take back the PoK, which legally, constitutionally, and morally belongs to India.
And someday, we will get back PoK, and people will have the right to access votes in the last 77 years, and their representatives will be able to attend the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha. That is the beauty of this bill," Narsaiah said.
No wife issues for me and Modi: Rahul
"Women are a central force, a driving force in our national imagination, in our national perspective," he said, as a calming peace prevailed in the House. "Every single one in this House has been influenced, taught... a lot [by] the women in their lives – mothers, sisters," he said, before pausing briefly to add "wives" to finish off the sentence.
He pointed out that he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi "don't have the wife issue." The House erupted into laughter upon hearing the remark.
Gandhi made another such remark just moments later, saying his sister, fellow Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, had achieved on Thursday something that he himself had not been able to do in his career.
"Yesterday, I was watching my sister achieve my sister achieve in five minutes that I have not been able to do, maybe, in 20 years of our political career, which was to make Mr Amit Shah ji smile," Rahul said.
He also said: "Manuvad over Samvidhaan...Amit Shah ji says that the caste census has begun. He repeated twice, trying to be clever, saying that houses don't have caste. The point is whether or not the caste census is going to be used in representation in Parliament & State Assemblies.
And now, what you are trying to do is that caste census has nothing to do with representation for the next 15 years..."
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