New Delhi:Mallikarjun Kharge raged Thursday as three bills - one on delimitation, a second on increasing Lok Sabha seats, and a third to reserve 33 per cent of parliamentary, state assembly seats for women - were tabled in a special session of parliament.

The Congress chief accused the BJP of trying to sneak through a 'flawed' delimitation bill - which will redraw parliamentary and assembly constituencies - under the guise of reserving seats for women.

"The opposition will not allow parliament to be hijacked by flawed delimitation bills disguised as 'women's reservation'," he said, "We will fight this assault on democracy..."

The issue was perhaps best explained by the opposition party's Shashi Tharoor, who said, "The government has a plan to re-delimit constituencies and increase seats in areas where the ruling party is strong."

"And they are using women's reservation as an excuse to bring about that change... by trying to amend the constitutional amendments that they had already brought in 2023," the Lok Sabha MP from Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram said.

Source:Ndtv