New Delhi: Members who created ruckus in
Rajya Sabha today while protesting against Women`s Reservation
Bill, claimed that they had to resort to such action as the
measure does not seek to empower the "really deprived"
sections among women.
"Government is resorting to dictatorship to pass the
bill and we have no other way out than resorting to these
means to prevent its passage by Parliament," said expelled
JD-U leader Ejaz Ali, who was one of those who caused
pandemonium in the House over the issue.
He claimed that the Bill does not seek to empower the
women who are "really deprived".
LJP member Sabir Ali, who also vociferously opposed the
bill in the House, justified his action saying, "If we have
to oppose the bill what is the other better way out in this
situation, when the government is hell-bent on passing it. We
will go to any extent to block its passage."
Subhash Prasad Yadav, an MP from RJD and the brother-in-
law of party chief Lalu Prasad, said, "What we did was correct
and if there is a need we would do it again...I tore away the
bill because it does not propose separate reservation for the
other backward classes."
Another RJD MP Rajniti Prasad said, "The protest was not
pre-planned. It was spontaneous. The bill does not represent
the real aspirations."
-PTI
