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| Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has once again followed footsteps of his predecessors by talking of consensus on Parliament's second-longest pending bill on Women Reservation. What happened to his assurance given at Lady Shri Ram College for Women (Delhi) that Women Reservation Bill would be tabled in Parliament in winter-session of Parliament last year? Are all the bills in Parliament passed by consensus only? With parties vocally in support of the Bill account for much more than two-third majority in Parliament, politicians do not have a valid excuse to fool women of this nation. Rather it is time to test BJP where former Prime Minister AB Vajpayee has pledged to support the Bill in its original form on its presentation in Parliament. Sonia Gandhi in her plain-speaking confession admitted that the bill is not passed due to resistance of her allied partners like Lalu Prasad Yadav, Dayanidhi Maron and Ambumani Ramadoss. Interestingly all these political heavyweights pose themselves to be biggest champion of man-made reservation while women are a dominated section of society created by nature. Left parties should feel themselves duty-bound to convince their friends in UPA to open heart for women by not resisting the long-pending Bill.
Instead of spending heavily on newspaper-advertisements to celebrate International Women's Day on 8th March, Indian women constituting 50-percent of country's population should be given their legitimate right of reservation in legislature by passing Women Reservation Bill in its original form. Even Islamic world including Pakistan and many other democratic countries including fresh democracy in Nepal have adopted Women-Reservation in legislature. Women-reservation in Indian legislature can be on formula successfully adopted in municipal and local-body elections in many Indian states. Till the bill is passed, Union government should accept Election Commission's recommendation of compelling political parties to give at least one-third tickets to women.
Madhu Agrawal, New Delhi
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