PM Modi owes apology to women of India: Congress

Congress demands PM Modi's apology for delaying the women's reservation law, citing governance failures and political maneuvering.

The Congress on Friday (April 10, 2026) alleged that the Modi government’s “U-turn” on the implementation of the women’s reservation law is aimed at covering up his “monumental failures” in governance and “severe setbacks” to foreign policy.

The Opposition party claimed that PM Modi owes an “apology” to the women of India, as he did not accept the Congress’ demand to implement the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, 2023, from the 2024 polls itself.

“Actually, he owes an apology to the women of India. When the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, 2023 was passed by Parliament in 2023 unanimously, the Indian National Congress had demanded its implementation from 2024 itself,” Mr. Ramesh said on X.

But this was not acceptable to the Prime Minister, who made the reservation dependent on the delimitation and census exercises that he had failed to conduct and then dithered on for many years, the Congress leader said.

Mr. Ramesh claimed that 30 months later, facing defeat in the Assembly elections, in spite of the Election Commission of India functioning as a subordinate office of the Union Home Ministry, the Prime Minister has changed his mind.

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