Y.S. Sharmila, president of the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC), has reaffirmed the Congress party's support for the Women's Reservation Bill, which would reserve 33% of seats in India's parliament for women. She criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing his government of linking the bill's implementation to a future delimitation exercise — a redrawing of constituency boundaries — as a means of indefinitely delaying its enactment. Sharmila described the move as politically motivated, arguing that the government was using the guise of women's empowerment to advance other electoral interests.