‘Frustrated’ PM Modi turned official speech into ‘mudslinging, outright lies’: Opposition
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned an official address to the nation into a political speech “full of mudslinging and outright lies”, the Opposition said on Saturday.
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge said that Modi must “stop lying to the nation” that the draft legislation defeated by the Opposition in Parliament on Friday “was an amendment to the Women’s Reservation Bill”.
“It was not,” Kharge said. “This was purely a delimitation bill, brought in to create further division and redraw the electoral map in a manner that can only benefit the BJP [Bharatiya Janata Party].”
The comments came after Modi, in an address to the nation on Saturday, criticised Opposition parties for defeating in the Lok Sabha the Union government’s bill to amend the 2023 Women’s Reservation Act and redraw the boundaries of electoral constituencies.
On Friday, the 2026 Constitution 131st Amendment Bill, one of three draft legislations, was defeated in the Lower House of Parliament. As a Constitution amendment bill, it required a two-thirds majority of votes to pass. The ruling National Democratic Alliance does not have a two-thirds majority of MPs in any House and had required the support of the Opposition to pass the amendment.
In his address on Saturday, Modi claimed that Opposition parties stood against the draft legislation, which he described as...