NEW DELHI: A heated trade broke out within the Lok Sabha between chief of the opposition Rahul Gandhi and Union minister Kiren Rijiju in the course of the Congress MP’s speech on the Ladies’s Reservation Invoice.Rijiju intervened when Gandhi, in his tackle, accused the BJP-led Centre of making an attempt to sidestep granting energy and illustration to OBCs.“It’s a historic reality how Indian society handled Dalits, OBCs and their ladies… What’s being tried here’s a bypass of the caste census. They’re attempting to keep away from giving energy and illustration to my OBC brothers and sisters and as a substitute take energy away from them,” Gandhi mentioned.Rijiju interjected, alleging that Gandhi’s father, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, had opposed OBC reservation each throughout his time in energy and when out of energy.He additionally questioned why the Congress, regardless of ruling the nation for almost 60 years, didn’t grant constitutional reservation to OBCs.“When Congress dominated this nation for greater than 60 years, why did it not present constitutional reservation for OBCs? The Congress has to reply,” the parliamentary affairs minister said.“When Rajiv Gandhi was prime minister—and even in any other case—he opposed OBC reservation. Can Rahul Gandhi clarify why?” Rijiju requested.Earlier, Gandhi accused the federal government of making an attempt to change India’s electoral panorama by linking ladies’s reservation to delimitation, asserting that the opposition wouldn’t permit the invoice to go.His remarks got here forward of voting within the Lok Sabha on the Structure (131st Modification) Invoice, which proposes rising the variety of Lok Sabha seats to 850.. Whereas the ruling NDA, with 293 MPs, holds a majority within the 545-member Home, it requires a two-thirds majority to go the laws.