{"id":6576,"date":"2026-04-21T16:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/women-quota-blatant-abuse-of-power-congress-moves-privilege-notice-against-pm-modi-over-address-to-nation-on-women-quota-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:38:17","slug":"women-quota-blatant-abuse-of-power-congress-moves-privilege-notice-against-pm-modi-over-address-to-nation-on-women-quota-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/women-quota-blatant-abuse-of-power-congress-moves-privilege-notice-against-pm-modi-over-address-to-nation-on-women-quota-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Quota: &#8216;Blatant abuse of power&#8217;: Congress moves privilege notice against PM Modi over address to nation on women quota | 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-130414137,imgsize-679286,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/-.jpg\" alt=\"'Blatant abuse of power': Congress moves privilege notice against PM Modi over address to nation on women quota\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Congress MP KC Venugopal on Tuesday submitted a breach of privilege notice in Parliament against Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/narendra-modi\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Narendra Modi<\/a> over his address to the nation after his 131st Constitutional (Amendment) Bill, 2026, failed to pass in the Lok Sabha.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Calling it a &#8220;blatant abuse of power&#8221;, the MP from Alappuzha said that the address in which the PM criticised the opposition constituted a &#8220;serious breach of privilege and contempt of the House.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/> &#8220;In the 29-minute speech termed as &#8216;address&#8217; to the Nation, the Prime Minister criticised opposition parties for blocking the bill and made direct reflections on the voting pattern of Members of the Opposition and attributed motives to them&#8230; <!-- -->Addressing the Nation by the Prime Minister on Government not able to muster the requisite majority in Parliament, for criticising the Opposition parties, is unprecedented, which is unethical and a blatant abuse of power.<!-- --> Such statements by the highest executive functionary of the country constitute a serious breach of privilege and contempt of the House&#8221; Venugopal&#8217;s notice read.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>Sharing the notice on X, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said, &#8220;A sitting PM\u2019s address to the nation has always been reserved for the overriding purpose of national unity and confidence-building. The Prime Minister\u2019s unabashed partisan demagoguery during this address \u2013 with 59 different attacks on the Congress party \u2013 will be yet another permanent stain on his record as Prime Minister.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>This follows remarks by Prime Minister Modi, who said the rejection of the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill deals a direct blow to women\u2019s dignity, an affront he believes female voters will not forget. \u201cWomen may forget many things, but not an insult to their pride,\u201d he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/> He added that what he called the opposition\u2019s \u201cmisdeed\u201d would ultimately be punished by the people.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/blatant-abuse-of-power-congress-moves-privilege-notice-against-pm-modi-over-address-to-nation-on-women-quota\/articleshow\/130413779.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Congress MP KC Venugopal on Tuesday submitted a breach of privilege notice in Parliament against Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his address to the nation after his 131st Constitutional (Amendment) Bill, 2026, failed to pass in the Lok Sabha.Calling it a &#8220;blatant abuse of power&#8221;, the MP from Alappuzha said that the address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6576","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\/6576","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=6576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}