Kharge slams PM’s speech after invoice fails Lok Sabha take a look at| India Information
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “mudslinging” and “attacking his opponents” throughout his tackle to the nation on Saturday. The PM’s speech got here after the federal government’s Structure modification invoice was defeated in Parliament.
“A determined and annoyed PM [Narendra Modi] with nothing significant to point out for the final 12 years, turned an official tackle to the nation right into a political speech, filled with mudslinging, and outright LIES,” Kharge wrote on X.
He additionally alleged misuse of official equipment forward of the upcoming Meeting elections in two main states. “The Mannequin Code of Conduct is already in place and it was very clear how PM Modi misused official equipment to assault his opponents. This can be a travesty of Democracy and the Structure of India,” Kharge added.
What the Invoice sought to realize
The Structure (131st Modification) Invoice, 2026failed to cross the vote in Lok Sabha after falling wanting the required two-thirds majority. The laws proposed increasing the Home from 543 to 850 seats to facilitate 33% reservation for girls by the 2029 elections. Whereas the federal government secured 298 votes in favour, a united Opposition of 230 MPs voted it down.
The invoice was tied to the rollout of the Ladies’s Reservation Act, handed in 2023and required delimitation and census-linked processes earlier than implementation.
Modi, in his 30-minute speech on Saturdayaccused the Opposition of blocking ladies’s reform for political causes. He stated he was “very unhappy” that some Opposition leaders allegedly celebrated after the invoice failed, calling it an insult to ladies’s dignity. The Opposition was “taking ladies as a right,” he claimed, including they dedicated “foeticide”.
‘Modi ji talked about Congress 59 occasions’
Kharge pointed to what he described as a disproportionate give attention to attacking Congress. “Modi ji talked about Congress 59 occasions and girls barely a number of occasions. That tells the nation every thing about his priorities,” he wrote.
“Ladies aren’t the BJP’s precedence. Congress is, as a result of Congress stands on the fitting facet of historical past,” claimed Kharge.
The Congress president claimed that his occasion has persistently supported ladies’s reservation. He stated the Congress ensured the passage of the Ladies’s Reservation Invoice within the Rajya Sabha in 2010 and in addition backed the 2023 laws, which he stated continues to stay in pressure.
Criticising the delay in implementation, he stated, “The truth that it took the BJP 3 years to inform their very own invoice, reveals their dedication to India’s Naari Shakti!”
“Modi ji ought to STOP mendacity to the nation,” he stated.
3 calls for to the Prime Minister
Kharge additionally laid out three calls for for the Prime Minister.
“He ought to implement 33% reservation for girls within the current 543 Lok Sabha seats underneath the 2023 legislation. Don’t deny ladies their due illustration now,” Kharge stated.
“Cease mixing up the delimitation payments… with the Ladies’s Reservation Invoice… This was NOT. This was purely a delimitation Invoice,” he added.
His final demand was for Modi to “apologise to 140 crore Indians.”
‘BJP anti-women; garlanded rapists’
Kharge claimed the BJP has been “anti-women in each motion and angle”, citing incidents akin to Hathras, Unnao, and the therapy of girls wrestlers in Haryana.
Kharge alleged that the occasion has shielded people accused of sexual crimes, referred to the discharge of convicts within the Bilkis Bano case, and accused its leaders of publicly supporting such people.
“They’ve garlanded criminals and rapists,” Kharge accused.
“After 12 and a half years in energy… the Prime Minister had nothing to supply the nation besides a political speech,” he added.
Different Opposition events additionally dismissed the PM’s allegations and accused him of deceptive the general public. Senior Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien stated that the “worst type of insulting ladies” was utilizing them as a “decoy” to push by means of the delimitation invoice.
