BJP’s ‘downfall has begun’ after constitution bill defeated in Lok Sabha: Mamata
Baruipur: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said the BJP’s “downfall has begun” after New Delhi failed to secure passage of a Constitution amendment bill in the Lok Sabha, exposing that the Modi government is now a “minority government” surviving on allies.
According to Kashmir Media Service, addressing rallies in Uluberia and Baruipur, the TMC supremo said Friday’s defeat showed the BJP no longer enjoys a majority of its own. The bill, seeking to link women’s reservation with delimitation, was defeated as it secured only 298 votes against the required 352 for a two-thirds majority, while 230 MPs voted against it.
“Yesterday proved they are no longer a majority government. It is a minority government. They are somehow running it with the support of two parties,” Banerjee said, questioning why women’s reservation was tied to delimitation. “Is this an attempt to hide fish with greens?” she asked, alleging New Delhi was concealing its real intentions. Modi sahib’s downfall began in Delhi.”
In the Lok Sabha, you have been defeated; now you will have to be defeated on the ground. Bengal will show the way,” she told supporters. Banerjee said she had fought for women’s reservation since 1998 and accused the BJP of spreading lies through media. She alleged the proposed delimitation was a plan to “divide the country, divide Bengal and divide every state” by redrawing political boundaries.
“We sent our 21 MPs to Parliament because the issue was important. We will not allow Bengal to be divided,” she said. Highlighting TMC’s record, she said women constitute 37 per cent of the party’s Lok Sabha MPs, 46 per cent in Rajya Sabha, and 50 per cent in panchayats and municipalities.
“Show me another party that has done this,” she added. She also attacked the BJP over Bihar CM Nitish Kumar’s resignation, saying, “They used him during the elections and then pushed him aside,” and warned people against filling forms under a BJP cash scheme, alleging it was fraud to take money from accounts. “Yesterday, Modi’s downfall began in Delhi. The election defeat in Bengal will be the second fall,” Banerjee said, accusing the BJP of planning to misuse central agencies and forces in the assembly polls.
