New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said that census and delimitation is not required for implementing the Women’s Reservation Bill and it should come into force soon after it is passed by Parliament.

Participating in the debate on the Bill in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi said that it should also have provision for OBC reservation.

"There is one thing in my view that makes this bill incomplete. I would like to have seen the OBC reservation included in this bill," he said.

Supporting the bill, Rahul Gandhi also raised the party’s demand for caste census and said that the population of Dalits, tribals and Other Backward Classes can only be known through it.    

Referring to the concerns raised by opposition parties about the provisions of the bill, he said that it legislation can be implemented without delay.   

"Delimitation and census is not required, the bill should be immediately implemented," the Congress leader said.

The Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam was moved for passage in the Lok Sabha earlier in the day by Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal.

The Constitution (One Hundred and TwentyEighth Amendment) Bill, 2023, was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, the first sitting of the House in new Parliament building.