Congress president Sonia Gandhi has told a women’s delegation that in her reckoning it is not Lalu Prasad or Mulayam Singh Yadav who would play spoilsport for the women’s reservation bill, but the BJP.
The delegation had gone to inquire from her about the chances of passage of the bill in the Lok Sabha. Sonia Gandhi said the BJP was playing a double game and instead of supporting the bill wholeheartedly to which it was committed, it chose to run with the hare and hunt with the hound for best political mileage.
Added to that was the personal rivalry between Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley and Leader of Oppositon in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, with the latter resenting that Jaitley had stolen a march with his spirited defence of the bill when the Rajya Sabha passed it amid unprecedented acrimony and chaos last month.
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