New Delhi: Even as NCP leader Sharad Pawar
indicated that there could be some dilution in the Women`s
Reservation Bill, Congress on Monday maintained that there was no
such proposal.
"Let me make it clear that there is no such proposal.
There is no such idea," party spokesman Abhishek Singhvi said
when asked if the views of the Yadav troika of SP chief
Mulayam Singh Yadav, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and JD(U)
President Sharad Yadav would be accommodated in the Bill.
Singhvi said within the UPA coalition everything is
discussed and there is no disharmony. "We will be on the same
page," he said.
The spokesman said the UPA pushed the bill in the Rajya
Sabha and it will achieve the dream of getting it passed.
"There is no cause of speculation in this regard," he added.
Asked about BJP and Left supporting the Women`s
Reservation Bill and joining hand to oppose the Nuclear
Liabilities Bill, Singhvi said there was no connection between
the two Bills.
He said it was for BJP and Left to decide if they come
together on an issue but added that wherever there is a
"clear, transparent public interest" involved, the party
will go ahead.
Singhvi said the party sought support from BJP on 123
Agreement and the Women`s Reservation Bill, adding that it was
"unmasked on 123" while it supported the government on the
Women`s Reservation Bill.
PTI
