Ranjan questions govt over delay in passing women's reservation bill

Ranjan: 13 years ago we had passed this Bill in Rajya Sabha. You have brought it today after being in power for 9.5 years. Why did it take so long. Why did you need this special session to bring this Bill. You have put in a hurdle of census and delimitation. Yesterday in the LS you (govt) justified saying if census and delimitation clauses weren't added, we would have challenged the Bill in courts. You are people who did no consultation before demonetisation or before imposing a lockdown so why now, for giving women reservation, do you have this worry of us challenging the provisions? Is this not merely an election stunt? You want to reap electoral benefits from the Bill. You do not want to give reservation immediately because you do not want to take away share of men and give it to women. You want to first conduct delimitation, increase the total number of seats and only then increase the share for women.