Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav questioned the BJP-led government's commitment to women's empowerment in the Lok Sabha, citing the lack of women chief ministers in BJP-ruled states.
Yadav pointed out that the BJP has 21 governments in states and union territories, but only one woman chief minister, Rekha Gupta of Delhi, who lacks control over key powers.
He also questioned the BJP's ideological fount, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), on the number of women within the organization.
Yadav accused the BJP of turning 'nari' (women) into a 'nara' (slogan) and demanded that women from Muslim and OBC groups also be given reservation under the women's reservation framework.
He alleged that the BJP wants to postpone the census and delay the caste census, which would raise questions of reservation that the BJP and its allies do not want to address.
Yadav agreed with Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi that the BJP wants to change the electoral map of the country through delimitation and questioned how reservation can be determined if the underlying data is flawed.
