LUCKNOW, April 18 -- Dimple Yadav, Samajwadi Party MP from Mainpuri, on Friday alleged in Lok Sabha that the recent amendments to the women's reservation law were driven by a desire to retain power rather than genuinely empowering women. Speaking during the debate on the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, which provides for 33 per cent reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies, she accused the ruling party of misrepresenting the Opposition's stand on the women's quota law as she pointed out that the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, 2023, was passed with support from both the ruling party and the Opposition. Yadav reiterated her party's demand for a census followed by delimitation, before implementing the 33 per cent reservation for women in Parliament and state assemblies. She questioned why the government had delayed the census. "Why has the government not initiated the census since 2024? They have wasted two-and-a-half years. Now they are suddenly in a hurry. This is because they want to cling to power and are using delimitation as a political weapon to deny women their rightful place in the 2029 elections," she claimed. The SP MP also accused the ruling party of failing to fulfil several electoral promises, including creating jobs for the youth and doubling farmers' incomes. Demanding broader social justice, she called for extending reservation benefits to women from SC, ST, OBC and minority communities. "The BJP is obsessed with power and does not want to give the poor and marginalised their due rights and dignity," Yadav alleged....