LUCKNOW, April 16 -- Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday backed reserving one-third of seats for women in Parliament and state assemblies but opposed the BJP government's push to implement the amendment to Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam 2023, without conducting a fresh caste-based census. Yadav alleged the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was orchestrating a 'massive conspiracy' to sidestep updated caste data that would secure backward classes' political representation. His stand comes ahead of a special three-day Parliament session starting Thursday, where the government plans to move amendments to operationalise the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam passed in September 2023, possibly delinking implementation from the next Census, delimitation exercise. In a post on social networking platform X, Yadav accused the BJP-led government of attempting to deny Backward Classes their rightful share of political representation. He described the BJP's push for the constitutional amendment as a deliberate attempt to bypass a fresh caste-based census, delimitation exercise. "We support women's reservation, but we stand against the BJP's calculated conspiracy," Yadav wrote. "The BJP and its allies have maintained a conspicuous silence regarding women belonging to the country's largest demographic segment: the 'Backward Classes.' The haste they are showing in the name of this amendment is, in reality, driven by a BJP agenda to avoid conducting a census. If a census were to take place, it would necessitate the release of caste-based data, consequently, the implementation of caste-based reservation. This constitutes a massive conspiracy by the BJP, wherein the rights of the Backward Classes are usurped by sidestepping census-based delimitation," Akhilesh wrote on X. Notably, Yadav's position mirrors the Samajwadi Party's traditional stance under his father, late Mulayam Singh Yadav, during the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. In March 2010, when the United Progressive Alliance introduced the Women's Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha, the Samajwadi Party, along with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Janata Dal (United), mounted fierce resistance....