{"id":5096,"date":"2026-04-18T12:34:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T07:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/big-win-for-democracy-priyanka-gandhi-after-delimitation-bill-defeated-in-lok-sabha-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T12:34:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T07:04:45","slug":"big-win-for-democracy-priyanka-gandhi-after-delimitation-bill-defeated-in-lok-sabha-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/big-win-for-democracy-priyanka-gandhi-after-delimitation-bill-defeated-in-lok-sabha-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Big win for democracy\u2019: Priyanka Gandhi after delimitation bill defeated in Lok Sabha | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\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-130348513,imgsize-1568539,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/130348513.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018Big win for democracy\u2019: Priyanka Gandhi after delimitation bill defeated in Lok Sabha\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Wayanad MP <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/priyanka-gandhi\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Priyanka Gandhi<\/a> Vadra on Saturday hailed the defeat of the Delimitation Bill in the Parliament as a &#8220;victory of democracy&#8221; and accused the Centre of hatching a conspiracy to alter the federal structure of the country.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>While addressing a press conference, Priyanka said that Centre is planning to stay in power using Women.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>&#8220;What happened yesterday was a huge victory for democracy. The government&#8217;s conspiracy to alter the federal structure and weaken democracy was defeated and stopped. This was a victory for the Constitution, a victory for the country, and a victory for the unity of the opposition, and it was clearly visible on the faces of the ruling party leaders,&#8221; the Congress leader said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a conspiracy that somehow they need to stay in power&#8230; So, to achieve this, they&#8217;re planning how to permanently stay in power using women&#8230; They thought that if it was passed, they&#8217;d win. If it&#8217;s not passed, they&#8217;ll become the saviours of women by branding other parties as anti-women&#8230; We know that becoming a savior for women isn&#8217;t easy,&#8221; she added.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Her remarks came after the bill proposing women&#8217;s reservation through a delimitation exercise could not secure the required two-thirds majority in the Lok Sabha, with 298 members voting in favour and 230 opposing it.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla announced that the Constitution Amendment Bill had not been passed. Following the outcome, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said the government would not proceed with the remaining two interlinked bills.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>The BJP has accused opposition parties of blocking a historic reform aimed at ensuring 33 per cent reservation for women in Parliament and state assemblies. Union Home Minister Amit Shah alleged that parties like Congress, TMC, and others prevented the passage of the bill and warned of political consequences.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>However, the opposition has maintained that it supports women&#8217;s reservation in principle but opposes linking it with delimitation and census processes. Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, described the bill as an attempt to alter India&#8217;s electoral structure, while several Congress leaders termed the vote a defence of democratic values<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/><\/p>\n<div data-type=\"in_view\" class=\"  \">\n<div class=\"sQLTU timeline_pollWrapper_as  \" data-scrollga=\"scroll#poll_view\">\n<div>\n<p>Poll<\/p>\n<p>How do you view the remarks of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra regarding the government&amp;#39;s tactics?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/big-win-for-democracy-priyanka-gandhi-after-delimitation-bill-defeated-in-lok-sabha\/articleshow\/130348523.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday hailed the defeat of the Delimitation Bill in the Parliament as a &#8220;victory of democracy&#8221; and accused the Centre of hatching a conspiracy to alter the federal structure of the country.While addressing a press conference, Priyanka said that Centre is planning to stay in power using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5096","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\/5096","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=5096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}