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DMK leader Kanimozhi led the opposition's charge over the women quota law amendment in the Lok Sabha on Friday, April 17. She questioned the necessity of notifying the Women's Reservation Act while the Parliament was debating the amendments to the act passed in 2023. She also questioned why the Special Session of the Parliament was called in the middle of the assembly elections. The DMK MP also demanded that the women's reservation act, which provides 33 per cent quota for women in Lok Sabha and state assemblies, be implemented from 2029 with the same 543 seats. The delimitation exercise should be delinked from women's quota, she demanded.“What is the necessity of notifying Women’s Reservation Act 2023 yesterday?” asked DMK MP Kanimozhi in Lok Sabha.
"This Bill, in disguise of women's reservation, disrupts the federal structure of India," said DMK MP Kanimozhi.She also responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'kala tika' remark at her party's protest over women quota law amendment, saying black is the colour of goddess Kali and that the ruling party of Tamil Nadu will protest over the issue till the end.Intervening in the debate on the amendment to the women's reservation law in Lok Sabha on Thursday, Prime Minister Modi had taken a swipe at DMK members in the House for wearing black clothes to protest the amendment bill, saying it works as a 'kala tika' to ward off evil eye. He said there is a tradition to apply 'kala tika' before commencing a good work for which he thanks them.Participating in the debate on Friday, Kanimozhi, who was dressed in a black saree, said she is "surprised that people who are there to defend Hindutva were not reminded of goddess Kali, the dark goddess who wears black". She also said black is also the colour of DMK's intellectual leader Periyar, who has taught them to fight till the end.Besides Kanimozhi, other DMK MPs were also dressed in black in the House.
