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Political parties urged to pass Women`s Reservation Bill
Mumbai, June 14: Demanding reservation for women in `seats` and not just `party lists`, All India Democratic Women`s Association (AIDWA) today urged political parties to pass the Women`s Reservation Bill in the coming monsoon session of Parliament.
Mumbai, June 14: Demanding reservation for women in `seats' and not just `party lists', All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) today urged political parties to pass the Women's Reservation Bill in the coming monsoon session of Parliament.
"It is understood that an alternative proposal to have
one-third reservation in party lists was expected to come up
in the forthcoming all-party meeting called by the Lok Sabha
Speaker Manohar Joshi to evolve a consensus on June 16",
social activist and AIDWA patron Ahilya Rangnekar said in a
statement here.
AIDWA has written to NCP, the RPI, the PWP and the Bharatiya Republican Party to support reservation for women in seats and not in party list, she said.
Rangnekar said the real opposition to the bill was within the ruling BJP and its allies, who have been postponing the bill since 1996 in the name of "consensus".
"The fact that the left parties and Congress had given a written assurance supporting the demand for 33 per cent reservation of seats in the Parliament and state assemblies for women was adequate to ensure a majority and pass the bill,” she said.
The refusal by the Lok Sabha Speaker to allow the Women's Reservation Bill to be tabled for discussion in the last budget session of Parliament had once again caused the bill to remain a pending issue, she lamented.
Bureau Report
AIDWA has written to NCP, the RPI, the PWP and the Bharatiya Republican Party to support reservation for women in seats and not in party list, she said.
Rangnekar said the real opposition to the bill was within the ruling BJP and its allies, who have been postponing the bill since 1996 in the name of "consensus".
"The fact that the left parties and Congress had given a written assurance supporting the demand for 33 per cent reservation of seats in the Parliament and state assemblies for women was adequate to ensure a majority and pass the bill,” she said.
The refusal by the Lok Sabha Speaker to allow the Women's Reservation Bill to be tabled for discussion in the last budget session of Parliament had once again caused the bill to remain a pending issue, she lamented.
Bureau Report