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Women
reservation bill won't be passed soon: Kiran Bedi
Wednesday March 09, 2011 05:39:53 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Refusing
to mince her words, former top cop Kiran Bedi Wednesday said she
doesn't think the women's reservation bill will be passed anytime
soon in parliament.
The bill, which seeks one-third reservation for women in the Lok
Sabha, was passed by the Rajya Sabha last year but is awaiting the
nod from the lower house.
"If there was a political will to pass the reservation bill, it
would have been done. The UPA chairperson is a woman, the leader
of the opposition is a woman, the speaker of the house is a woman,
the president is a woman... even Brinda Karat of the Left is a
strong supporter of the bill, then what is stopping it from
happening?" Bedi said at a discussion on the bill organised by the
Centre for Social Research (CSR) here.
"Actually inside every party, there are people who don't want the
bill to be passed. That's why there is this hindrance. This gaga
over the bill is just a show," she added amid applause from the
audience, most of whom were women.
Bedi said that women are not really seen as a threat by the
political parties.
"If you really want to do something then use your only tool - the
right to vote. Maybe there should be a nationwide movement in
which women say that they will not vote in the 2014 general
elections if this bill is not passed. Then maybe things will
change and I will be happy to be proved wrong," she added.
Albina Shakeel of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), another
speaker at the discussion, said: "Yesterday's incident in which a
second year girl student was shot dead in broad daylight in the
capital is yet another example how unsafe the city is for women."
"More women in parliament will just mean that policies will be
gender sensitive and things will change for the better - for women
and the society as a whole," she added.
CSR chairperson Ranjana Kumari unveiled her book "Reign She Will"
on the occasion. The book traces the journey of the women's
reservation bill ever since it was mooted two decades ago by
former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
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