All for women.

"Prime Minister Naredndra Modi yesterday apologised to women across the country after the Lok Sabha rejected the proposal for 33% reservation for women in Parliament," blaming opposition parties. ET. But why now, exactly one week before elections to assemblies of opposition controlled states of Tamil Nadu and West Bengal (wikipedia)? Government channels "Doordarshan National and DD News are the primary government broadcast channels that carry all presidential and prime ministerial addresses to the nation live and without interruption." Not just that, "Every household with a basic cable or DTH connection receives DD News." Dailyhunt. Which means that every Indian citizen is compelled to subscribe to these channels which serve the government. Mr Modi first came to power in 2014 (wikipedia) so why did he bring this law at this time in blatant violation of the Model Code of Conduct which "prescribes that official work and campaigning shall be kept separate and no official machinery should be used for campaigning. It also prohibits from spending public money for propaganda (wikipedia). At the very least the Election Commission of India (ECI) should postpone both elections by one month. Mr TN Seshan would have had the guts and integrity to do so TNIE. If the government's collective heart is bubbling over with concern for women, perhaps someone could explain why 35-year old Princess Latifa of Dubai was assaulted by Indian commandos, forcibly tranquilized and flown back to Dubai when she was begging for asylum (TOI). Or why thousands of women, many with little children, were forced to walk hundreds of kilometers back to their villages with no food, water, transport (gettyimages.in) or any help from the government after a very stringent lockdown was imposed on the whole nation on 25 March with just 4 hours notice (BBC)? Hungry toddlers cried for food and women even gave birth at the roadside without any medical help. TOI. Jyoti Kumari, born in 2005, would have been just 15 years old in May 2020, when she carried her injured father 1,200 kms on a bicycle from Gurugram near Delhi to Sirhulli in Bihar. Cycling 100 kms every day. wikipedia. Has anyone apologised to all these women for all the suffering that was imposed on them? "The 106th Constitutional Amendment in 2023 introduced reservation of one-third of seats in Lok Sabha and State Assemblies for women. It provides that reservation will come into effect after an exercise of delimitation is undertaken for this purpose, based on the first census after the commencement of the 2023 Act." PRS. A census started on 1 April 2026 and will continue till September. The Population Enumeration is scheduled for February 2027. wikipedia. The 131st Amendment Bill, which was defeated in Parliament, proposed Delimitation based on 2011 Census and Women's Reservation based on that. This was brazen, shameless duplicity. The ECI is a constitutional body and should take action at this sly, deceitful and  dishonorable electioneering. That would need a spine. Of bone. Not jelly