Lucknow, April 30 -- A day before the Uttar Pradesh assembly's special session, Samajwadi Party legislators on Wednesday criticised the Centre's approach to women's reservation. The party held a mock assembly session at its state headquarters in Lucknow in the presence of Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav and passed what it called "motion of extreme censure" against the BJP-led government. Former speaker and current Leader of the Opposition Mata Prasad Pandey assumed the role of the speaker for the proceedings, eventually declaring the motion passed by a majority vote. SP MLA Geeta Pasi alleged that the BJP's push for women's reservation is a strategic ploy. "The true agenda was to win elections by arbitrarily redrawing constituency boundaries through delimitation, not to genuinely empower women," she stated. Supporting this view, MLA Pinky Yadav clarified that while all parties supported the core concept of reservation, the "Delimitation Bill" remains the bone of contention. MLA Sayyada Khatoon slammed the government for failing to include specific quotas for women from Backward Classes (OBC) and minority communities. Several women legislators, including Ragini Sonkar and Indrani Verma, accused the BJP of harboring a "feudalistic and patriarchal" mindset.htc...