Jagan 'Women's Bill Defeat Did No Justice to Women Or South India'

YSRCP chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has said the women's reservation bill losing out in the Lok Sabha ended up rendering justice neither to South India nor women. 

A Constitution Amendment Bill to implement reservation for women in legislatures in 2029 and increase the number of seats of the Lok Sabha was defeated on Friday in the Lower House on Friday. 

"Opposing parties should seriously question themselves; what have they achieved.... justice is rendered neither to



the south, nor the women!" the former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh said on Friday in a post on X.

While the reality is that the number of Lok Sabha seats would come down for South India in the Parliament (through delimitation), he decried that the "women's reservation bill has been postponed." 

"If the 2026 census were to come, the situation would be worse off for the south, further penalised for bringing (sic) discipline in the matters of family planning," he added.