Womens Bill

Womens Bill

After heated opposition and repeated delays, the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday evening in the end, women discussed the historical reservation bill in the period before the vote on the legislation reserving one third of seats for women in Parliament and state legislatures.

Among those who spoke in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Arun Jaitley, Communist Party of India Marxist in the (Communist Party) Brinda Karat, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Satish Mishra and Jayanthi Natarajan of Congress.

Opening of the debate was Jaitley, who said his party was ‘unequivocal’ support Women’s Law Project, but added that the honor of supporting it was a mix of ’some of the most shameful incidents in India’s parliamentary’.

Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, who spoke after amending the constitution was put to the vote the draft law by President Hamid Ansari, said he had a feeling to be part of making history when he came to the house.

Carats, was a strong supporter of the draft law, the reservation for women in Parliament and state legislatures that would change the ‘culture of the country because women today are still caught in a prison culture. The name of tradition and stereotypes are imposed and we have to fight them every day ‘.

These will form the ideas should also be broken of the bill, Karat said, believed that the entry of more women in state legislatures that would make for ‘more sensitive policy’.

‘And women’s reservation bill to ensure that women of scheduled caste and tribes, other backward classes, poor women and Muslim women to take advantage of that,’ Karat said, addressing concerns that the law would only benefit some sections.

Congress leader and spokesman Jayanti Natarajan also refuted critics who are demanding a special quota for Dalit women, saying the lowest castes and tribes will continue to get the reservation under the law.

Natarajan said the triumphant not to any other party «has the courage to make promises (of the reservation for women) to the people of India ‘. The Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has not lagged behind in supporting measures to empower women.