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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday lashed out at the Congress and SP for their opposition to the Constitution amendment bill to implement women's quota, saying they "misused" the option given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to them to shed their "anti-women image".

Adityanath made the remarks after participating in the 'Jan Aakrosh Mahila Padyatra'

here to protest the defeat of the constitution amendment bill.

The government's Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill to implement women's quota and increase the number of Lok Sabha seats to 816 was defeated in the Lower House on Friday last.

Addressing party workers outside the Uttar Pradesh legislative building after the march, Adityanath said, "Be it the Congress or the Samajwadi Party, their face is undemocratic, their deeds are anti-women. They tried to misuse the option given to them by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to shed their anti-women image".

"Hence, the 'aadhee abadee' (women) is staging protests on the streets across the country against the Congress and its allies," he said.

He also said the march symbolises the resentment among women against the "anti-women" attitude of the Congress, Samajwadi Party, TMC and the DMK.

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Adityanath along with his deputies Keshav Prasad Maury and Brajesh Pathak and other leaders of the BJP participated in the march.

The Uttar Pradesh government earlier said in a statement that, "This march is being organised to protest against the failure to pass the crucial amendment bill regarding women's reservation- an act that has deeply hurt the aspirations of millions of mothers and sisters across the country".