Dynastic parties don’t want daughters to enter Parliament: PM Modi in Varanasi

Addressing the Mahila Aakrosh Sammelan, the PM slammed the opposition parties — the Congress, Samajwadi Party, DMK and the TMc -- for what he described as the “obstruction of the agenda of women’s reservation in the Lok Sabha and state Assemblies.”

The PM accused the INDIA bloc parties of defeating the Constitutional Amendment Bill that the BJP government brought in the recent special session, and told the gathering of women, “I want your blessings to fulfil the promise of 33 per cent reservation for women. I’m here in the holy city of Varanasi to start this pious ritual.”

With BJP president Nitin Nabin and Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath on stage, Modi said women’s reservation was the pledge of BJP-led NDA and he would fulfil it at all costs.

The PM, in a way, sounded the poll bugle for the 2027 Uttar Pradesh election and signalled that the issue of stalled agenda of women’s reservation would be the BJP’s major poll plank doing forward.

He also inaugurated several development projects worth over Rs 6,000 crore in his parliamentary constituency of Varanasi.

On Wednesday, he will pray at the Kashi Vishwanath Temple and inaugurate the 594-km Ganga Expressway, a six-lane access controlled highway, which connects 12 cities of UP.