Telangana BJP claimed on Saturday that its president, N. Ramachander Rao, had been placed under house arrest after he called for a protest outside Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy’s residence over the Congress’s stance on the Women’s Reservation Bill.
Rao was kept under house arrest to prevent the protest at the CM's residence, the Telangana BJP said in a post on X, also sharing photographs of the alleged police action.
“No matter how many arrests are made, the BJP's fight against the Congress government's stance will not stop,” Rao was quoted as saying in the post.
On Friday, Rao criticised the “stalling” of the Constitution Amendment Bill on women’s reservation in Parliament, terming it a “black day.” He alleged that the Opposition party had denied women their rightful representation in legislatures and the Lok Sabha.
Earlier, leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), the BJP's youth wing, staged a protest in Hyderabad on Friday evening, where they burned an effigy of Rahul Gandhi and targeted the Congress over its stance on the Women’s Reservation Bill in Parliament.
The BJP and its partners in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) have announced a massive nationwide campaign against the Opposition after the Women’s Reservation Bill was defeated in Parliament.
The Constitution Amendment Bill proposes to implement 33% reservation for women in legislatures by 2029 and to increase the number of Lok Sabha seats to 816. While 298 members voted in support of the Bill, 230 MPs voted against it. Out of 528 members who voted, the Bill required 352 votes to secure a two-thirds majority.