'You tried to kill MPs': BJP MP to Sonia Gandhi over OBC push, cites 2012 fight
India TodayBJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Wednesday cited a clash between the Congress and the Samajwadi Party in the Lok Sabha in 2012 over a bill for reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to counter Sonia Gandhi who pushed for the quota for Other Backward Classes in the women’s reservation bill. In December 2012, Samajwadi Party member Yashvir Singh snatched a copy of the Constitution Bill from Narayanasamy in the Lok Sabha. Extending her party's support to the women's reservation bill, Congress parliamentary party chief Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday demanded that the quota be implemented immediately and SC, ST, and OBC women also be given reservation following a caste census. Initiating the debate on the bill from the opposition's side, Gandhi said in the Lok Sabha that any delay in bringing the reservation into effect would be a "gross injustice" to Indian women.