Thirteen political events and civil society organisations mentioned the best way ahead for the Women’s Reservation Bill at a spherical desk organised in New Delhi by a cultural organisation headed by Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader K Kavitha on Wednesday.
“Twelve political events and several other civil society organisations joined the spherical desk dialogue and reiterated the demand to go the Bill in Parliament,’’ Kavitha stated, speaking concerning the events aside from the BRS.
Kavitha, an MLC in Telangana, known as for better participation of MPs in Parliament to make sure that the BJP authorities makes manner for tabling the Bill. Building strain for the long-pending Bill is the necessity of the hour, stated the BRS chief, who held a protest over the problem at Jantar Mantar on March 10.
The occasion organised by Bharat Jagruthi was attended by MPs from the BRS, JMM, DMK, RJD, Samajwadi Party, CPI, Shiv Sena, AAP, RLD, RSP, CPM, VCK and Chandra Shekhar Aazad’s Azad Samaj Party in addition to farmer union leaders, girls’s organisation representatives and college students.
Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi stated, “When the makers of the Indian Constitution could ensure that women were given an equal right to vote..why cannot the government in power table the Women’s Reservation Bill to ensure greater participation of women in legislative affairs?”
RJD MP Manoj Jha, nevertheless, additionally talked about having “reservation within reservation”. “We stand in solidarity with the Bill..we must look for reservation within reservation… We must have a strategy whereby issues are raised in Parliament as well as outside and a mass movement on the road brings Parliament to its knees.”
While extending assist for the Bill, Samajwadi Party MP S T Hassan stated {that a} nation couldn’t be a superpower if its girls weren’t given their due share and respect and “most importantly adequate representation”.
Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi MP Thol Tirumavalan stated, “The Women’s Reservation Bill is the need of the hour and the delay is grave injustice towards the people of this nation.”
DMK MP Thamizhachi Thangapandian assured Kavitha that her celebration would “use all the interventions to make Women’s Reservation Bill a reality”. “Women are needed in strategic decision-making,” she stated.
Senior CPI chief Binoy Biswam stated, “Patriarchal tendencies have come in the way of the Women’s Reservation Bill. The rights of the women, at this stage in the 21st century, are denied even on matters of giving birth, and even with respect to Parliament. We view this initiative by K Kavitha as a movement.”
RLD girls’s wing chief Pratibha Singh and chief Bhupinder Chaudhary stated that rural girls had been unaware even of the discussions going down across the Bill.
Mahua Maji, a Rajya Sabha member from the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, stated, “On one hand we are celebrating Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav and on the other, the representation of women in Parliament is abysmally low.”
AAP MP Raghav Chaddha prolonged assist to Kavitha’s initiative and stated, “The government has a clear majority. It must be put to use to ensure reforms and Bills of greater good are taken care of by the government.”
The dialogue was additionally attended by farmer leaders Gurnam Singh Chaduni and Balbir Singh Rajewal, who stated that ladies’s participation had performed a key function within the farmer protest.
Though handed by the Rajya Sabha in 2010, the Bill was by no means put to vote within the Lok Sabha.
The dialogue was additionally attended by farmer leaders Gurnam Singh Chaduni and Balbir Singh Rajewal, who stated that ladies’s participation had performed a key function within the farmer protest.
Though handed by the Rajya Sabha in 2010, the Bill was by no means put to vote within the Lok Sabha.