Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a meeting of the Union Cabinet in New Delhi on September 18 evening after the first sitting of the special session of Parliament amid speculation that the Women’s Reservation Bill was to be tabled in Parliament during the ongoing session, which will be held in the new building of Parliament from September 19.
The meeting of the Union Cabinet lasted over 90 minutes and there was no formal briefing or release. But amid reports that the Union Cabinet has approved the Women’s Reservation Bill that seeks to reserve one-third of the seats in Lok Sabha and the State legislative Assemblies, Prahlad Singh Patel, a Minister of State for Food Processing Industries and Jal Shakti, first congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on X (formerly Twitter) before deleting his post.
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