{"id":4665,"date":"2026-04-17T19:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/opposing-increase-in-sc-st-seats-amit-shah-on-india-bloc-objecting-to-delimitation-bill-top-quotes-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T19:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:43:09","slug":"opposing-increase-in-sc-st-seats-amit-shah-on-india-bloc-objecting-to-delimitation-bill-top-quotes-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/opposing-increase-in-sc-st-seats-amit-shah-on-india-bloc-objecting-to-delimitation-bill-top-quotes-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Opposing increase in SC, ST seats&#8217;: Amit Shah on INDIA bloc objecting to delimitation bill &#8211; top quotes | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130333886,imgsize-31212,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/untitled-design.jpg\" alt=\"'Opposing increase in SC, ST seats': Amit Shah on INDIA bloc objecting to delimitation bill - top quotes\" title=\"Amit Shah in Lok Sabha\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Union home minister <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/amit-shah\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Amit Shah<\/a> on Friday addressed the Lok Sabha on the women\u2019s reservation bill, accusing the Congress-led opposition of backing the legislation but with \u201cifs and buts.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"3\"\/>He also described the opposition\u2019s objection to delimitation as opposing an increase in SC\/ST seats.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>Here are Amit Shah\u2019s top quotes:<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"cdatainfo   id-r-component \" data-pos=\"8\">\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;No one has objected to the women&#8217;s reservation. But, if we see closely, all members of the INDI alliance have opposed it by using &#8216;ifs and but&#8217;.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Opposing delimitation means opposing increase in SC\/ST seats.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Nearly 133 members spoke in the House on this important constitution amendment bill, out of which 56 members were women, which will prove to be a record in itself.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I assure them that if they support us for delimitation, then the value of each vote will have equal value across constituencies.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;If we implement women&#8217;s reservation based on 543 seats, then 13 seats will get reserved for women, and 26 will remain open in Tamil Nadu.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;If we implement women&#8217;s reservation based on the 2011 census, then the number of parliamentary seats will reduce by 6. But we are not doing so. We are increasing seats by 50% for every state.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Even at that time (Emergency), it was the Congress party that deprived the country&#8217;s people of delimitation, and today too, it is the Congress party that is depriving them of delimitation.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;To make sure that there is confusion in the mind of 140 crore Indians, I want to make it clear that the Narendra Modi Cabinet had decided to hold caste census along with 2026 census.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The country should not be divided by this \u2018north-south\u2019 &#8216;east-west&#8217; narrative. We should rise above it. All states and UTs have equal rights in this parliament.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/opposing-increase-in-sc-st-seats-amit-shah-on-india-bloc-objecting-to-delimitation-bill-top-quotes\/articleshow\/130333459.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday addressed the Lok Sabha on the women\u2019s reservation bill, accusing the Congress-led opposition of backing the legislation but with \u201cifs and buts.\u201dHe also described the opposition\u2019s objection to delimitation as opposing an increase in SC\/ST seats.Here are Amit Shah\u2019s top quotes: &#8220;No one has objected to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-country"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}