Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday hit out at the Congress, saying it never wanted to empower women while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government dedicated the first decision in the new parliament to women in the form of the Women’s Reservation Bill.

Congress did not have the intent to empower women. Today they are talking of reservation… they could have done it 30 years back. But the truth is that the Congress never wanted to give 33 percent reservation to women,” Modi said while addressing a mammoth public meeting in Dadiya village on the outskirts of Jaipur

The BJP organised the Parivartan Sankalp to formally mark the culmination of the BJP’s four Parivartan yatras across the state. In his address, Modi reminded BJP workers, “Our only identity and pride is the lotus.”

Seeing the large turnout, Modi said, “I can see in Rajasthan, change will happen. The BJP