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Members of the Center and the opposition in both houses of the new Parliament are all set to have a heated argument on Wednesday over the Nari Shakti Vandan Act or the Women’s Reservation Bill. Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal presented it in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. The government has promised that it will hold a proper debate on this from Wednesday. ,
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The issue of Wednesday’s debate in Parliament may be about not reserving women in the OBC category. SP and RJD have taken up this issue forcefully and now Congress too can join this demand. The second question concerns reserved seats in the SC category. There is a provision in the new bill that the women of that community will get reservations from the SC/ST quota. This will reduce the quota of men. That is why BSP President and other organizations are demanding that the quota of SC/ST women should be increased.
This bill guarantees one-third or 33% seats for women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies. Whenever implemented, it will continue to apply for the first 15 years. Parliament can take it further. The special thing is that after this law is made, women’s reservation will be implemented as soon as the delimitation process and census is done. This means women will have to wait for many more years for this revolutionary step of reservation.
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Congress Parliamentary Party President Sonia Gandhi will be the party’s keynote speaker for the debate on the Nari Shakti Vandan Act or Women’s Reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. In 2008, the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government introduced the bill in the Rajya Sabha and it was passed in 2010. However, the bill was never taken up for consideration in the Lok Sabha. When Sonia Gandhi tells all these facts to the House on Wednesday, there is a possibility of an uproar from BJP MPs.
The new bill that has been introduced is the 128th Amendment Bill, 2023. Three new articles and a new section have been inserted in it. The new Section 239AA states that one-third of the seats reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC) will be reserved for women. One-third of the total seats to be filled through direct elections will be reserved for women. These seats will be reserved in Lok Sabha and Assembly. There will be no such quota in the Rajya Sabha and State Legislative Councils.
But the opposition, including the Congress, said the bill is a “jumla” by the BJP government. This is a ‘big betrayal’ to Indian women. To this, the BJP replied that the Congress was never serious about giving reservations to women in the Lok Sabha and Assemblies.
Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge said most political parties do not give tickets to women from weaker sections. He attacked Prime Minister Modi and alleged that the federal structure has been “weakened” under his government.
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Kharge said in the Rajya Sabha, “All political parties have a habit of giving tickets to weak women. I know how parties choose women from Scheduled Castes, Backward Classes… Such women from weaker sections get tickets so that they don’t have to open their mouths. .. It’s like this in every party in the country and that’s why women are lagging behind. You don’t allow them to speak and you don’t allow their rights.”
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