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New Delhi:
Lalu Prasda Yadav led RJD and
Samajwadi Party today made its opposition to the Women's Reservation
Bill plain after the Union Cabinet has given the green signal to the
legislation.
''We will not tolerate it,'' an angry
RJD Chief Lalu Prasad said in the Lok Sabha during a discussion on
the Motion of Thanks on the President's Address.
"The country's President is a woman,
Lok Sabha Speaker is a woman,
Congress
president and UPA chairperson is also a woman and they have not come
here through the women quota," he said.
"The nation has
provided enough opportunities without reservation to women like Mayawati, Rabri Devi, Sushma Swaraj, Sheila Dikshit and Mamata
Banerjee, among others", he added.
He was of the opinion that the Bill
would kill the talent in the country and hence should not be brought
in the House of the Elders at all.
He asked the Centre to convene an
all-party meeting in this regard before taking any concrete action
on it.
The
Samajwadi Party (SP) too contended that 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
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.
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