Kavitha hits out at Congress, BJP over delay in Women’s Reservation Bill

Kavitha also highlighted the support of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao for increasing women's representation at both the national and State levels.

Hyderabad: BRS MLC K Kavitha launched a scathing attack on BJP State President G Kishan Reddy and TPCC President A Revanth Reddy, sharply criticising their stances on the Women’s Reservation Bill. She dismissed allegations by both BJP and Congress State leaders concerning the BRS ticket distribution and women’s representation as mere rhetoric.

In a series of pointed tweets, Kavitha called on the BJP, Congress, and other political parties to outline their strategies for enhancing women’s representation and what they had to offer to the women of Telangana during ticket distribution.

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In a strong counter to Kishan Reddy, Kavitha expressed surprise at his concern for women’s rights but welcomed his acknowledgment of the long-standing demand for the Women’s Reservation Bill. She underscored the BJP’s failure to honour its electoral promise of passing the Women’s Reservation Bill, despite its significant parliamentary majority.

“Kishan Anna, with an overwhelming majority in the Parliament, BJP can table and pass any Bill. Your party has refused to even entertain its two-time manifesto promise of the Women’s Reservation Bill,” she tweeted.

Kavitha also took a jibe at the BJP’s apparent frustration and desire to poach BRS leaders who were denied tickets, cautioning against linking political insecurities to women’s representation. She highlighted Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao’s support for increasing women’s representation, and asserted that a constitutional amendment, similar to that enabling 14 lakh women in Telangana to represent local bodies, was necessary for achieving gender parity at the national and State levels. She praised the Chief Minister’s proposal to increase the Parliamentary seats and reserve one-third of them for women as a genuine commitment, in contrast to what she termed as BJP’s “Jhumlas.”

“Politicising a structural flaw will only expose the intent of all the political parties that represent the aspirations of the people of the country that are never fulfilled, especially by a party that has been boasting about its thumping majority but does nothing for giving women an equal space in political discourse,” she added.

Training her guns at TPCC President A Revanth Reddy and the Congress, Kavitha criticised their efforts on the Women’s Reservation Bill as mere eyewash and a mockery of the issue. She reminded the slow progress of the Bill during Congress’s rule and questioned the failure of the Congress including Sonia Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi to raise the issue in the last 10 years.

Kavitha also pointed to the Congress’s hypocrisy in women’s representation, citing examples such as minimal female representation in the Karnataka Cabinet and questionable seat allocation for women in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. She questioned the Congress‘s absence during her protest demanding the tabling of the Women’s Reservation Bill in Delhi during March this year, as evidence of their lackluster support for the Bill.

Further, Kavitha took a strong stance against Revanth Reddy, dubbing him the “Godse of Gandhi Bhavan.” Accusing him of stifling dissent and opposing democracy, she underscored his alleged disregard for public voices.