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Mulayam offers support to Women's Quota Bill
with a rider
Friday November 09, 2012 09:15:14 PM,
IANS
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Lucknow: Samajwadi
Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, known for his stiff
opposition to the Women's Reservation Bill, Friday seemed to have
softened his stand.
He said that if the Bill served the "interests and welfare of the
dalits, Muslims and other backward classes", he would have no
problems with it.
Speaking to reporters after a function in the state capital, the
former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said his opposition to the
Women's Reservation Bill was to the format in which it was tabled
in parliament.
"If our viewpoint is considered on the OBCs, minorities and dalits,
we will certainly reconsider our stand on the issue," he said.
"Women have suffered for long, and have been discriminated
against. I am of the opinion that society should give an equal
chance to them to work for the progress of the country," the
former chief minister of UP later told IANS.
"I would be happy if men and women work together," he said.
At a meeting in Barabanki, Yadav had Thursday opposed the Bill,
saying it was only "going to benefit the richer women and the
weaker sections would further lose their hold".
The Samajwadi Party (SP), along with Lalu Yadav's Rashtriya Janta
Dal (RJD) and Sharad Yadav's Janata Dal United (JDU), has been
bitterly opposing the Bill which envisages 33 percent reservation
for women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies.
The Bill, passed by the Rajya Sabha in 2010, has been stuck in the
Lok Sabha owing to bitter opposition from the Yadav trio - Mulayam
Singh Yadav, Lalu Yadav and Sharad Yadav.
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