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Govt. to bring Women Reservation Bill in Parliament next week:
The government is planning to bring the Women Reservation Bill,
approved by the Union
Cabinet
last night, before Parliament next week and is confident of getting
it passed
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New Delhi:
The political parties expressed mixed reaction for the Union
Government’s decision to introduce the Women Reservation Bill in the
Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
On
February 25, Union Cabinet had approved the long-awaited Women’s
Reservation Bill, which provides for 33 percent of reservation for
women in the elected bodies.
The
National Commission for Women, chairperson, Girija Vyas opined that
the proposed Bill would not be an obstacle for anybody.
“By
giving reservation to women, it will not affect their own domain.
Rather we belong to half the population and we will carry forward
the tradition of working together. Our percentage in the decision
taking institutions reaches just up to six to eight percent whereas
in other countries this percentage is much higher,” said Girija Vyas.
Union Law and Justice Minister and Congress leader M. Veerappa Moily
mentioned that he is in favour of inclusion of reservation for the
other backward classes (OBCs) in the Bill.
“I
know, you know, this is confined to the woman reservation of 33
percent. You know that it is a general concept that in the entire
house there should be reservation for OBC both men and women.
Unless there is a bigger picture, which our friends want, that
should be brought about. We can think about it, we can consult it,
but it has to be on a different paradigm,” Moily noted.
The
Samajwadi Party (SP) contended there should be reservation for
Muslim women and also women belonging to OBCs and added to say
otherwise, it would vote against the Bill.
Akhilesh Yadav, president of the Uttar Pradesh state unit of SP said
that they were firm with their decision of protesting, in case the
amendments suggested by his party are not accepted and incorporated.
“In
case backward class and Muslim women are not included in it (Women’s
Reservation Bill), Samajwadi Party will oppose it and if the
government is ready to accept the amendment, we will stand by its
favour,” observed Akhilesh Yadav.
On
the other hand Congress spokesperson Manish Tiwari, said that the
government is not trying to perturb the unity of the opposition.
“The
UPA government (led by) the Congress party has always been saying
that Women’s (Reservation) Bill should be passed. So raising a
question for everything or saying that we want to break the unity of
the opposition, first let the opposition be sure if they are
themselves united,” said Manish Tiwari of Congress party.
The
Bill was referred to the Standing Committee of Parliament on
December 17, 2009 and its report was placed before the Lok Sabha by
Shahnawaz Hussain, of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and in the
Rajya Sabha by Jayanti Natrajan, of Congress party on Thursday.
Amidst opposition by a few, the political parties, by and large, are
keen to see the early passage of the Bill in the Parliament, which
has been pending since 1999 since the pro-backward parties have been
demanding ‘a quota within quota’ for women belonging to backward,
minority and scheduled castes. (ANI)
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