Rahul Gandhi uses ‘3Ms’ — marriage, magician, and Modi — to attack govt on Delimitation Bill: Key highlights

Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, on Friday launched a sharp attack on the government during the delimitation debate, invoking his '3 Ms' — marriage, Modi, and magician — in a pointed jibe.

“Modi is a magician and he has run out of tricks. This was a panic reaction because the Prime Minister, at any cost, needed to send two messages. Number one, he needed to change the electoral map of India. And number two, he needed to send a message again that he is pro-women. Why he is doing that, I will leave to your imagination. The truth is the magician has been caught. The magician of Balakot, the magician of demonetisation, the magician of Sindoor has suddenly got caught,” Gandhi said, without naming the Prime Minister directly.

"All of us have been influenced and taught by women in their lives… mothers, sisters, and wives… of course, the Prime Minister and myself don’t have the wife issue. So we don’t get that input," said Rahul Gandhi.

Check key highlights here:

• Govt trying to avoid giving power, representation to OBCs; this is its agend.
• All of us have been influenced and taught by women in their lives… mothers, sisters, and wives… of course, the Prime Minister and myself don’t have the wife issue. So we don’t get that input.
• What govt is doing is nothing short of anti-national act; we won't allow you to do it, entire opposition will defeat this.
• Everybody knows there is a partnership between the magician and the businessman
• The first truth is that this is not a women's bill. This has nothing to do with the empowerment of women. This is an attempt to change the electoral map of India.
• Women are a central force, a driving force in our national imagination, in our national perspective.
• All of us, every single one in this room has been influenced, taught, learnt a lot from women in their lives.
• This bill is an attempt to change country's electoral map; using and hiding behind India's women.
• Prime Minister and myself don't have that wife issue. So, we don't get that input but we have our mothers and sisters.
• Manuvad over Samvidhaan...Amit Shah ji says that the caste census has begun. He repeated twice, trying to be clever, saying that houses don't have caste. The point is whether or not the caste census is going to be used in representation in Parliament & State Assemblies. And now, what you are trying to do is that caste census has nothing to do with representation for the next 15 years...
• It is a historical fact that how Indian society treated Dalits and OBCs and their women...What is being attempted here is a bypass of the caste census. Here, they are trying to avoid giving power and representation to my OBC brothers and sisters and taking power from them.
• What you (BJP) are doing, because you are scared of what is happening in the politics of the country, you are scared of the erosion of your strength, and you are trying to rejig the Indian political map. You did it in Assam, J&K, and now imagining you can do it in India. You need a constitutional amendment to do that.