Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLC and Telangana CM K Chandrashekar Rao’s daughter K Kavitha broke her one-day hunger strike in an effort to hunt the introduction of the Women’s Reservation Bill within the present Budget session of the Parliament. The sit-in dharna at Jantar Mantar was attended by opposition events and girls organisations who’ve supported the Women’s Reservation Bill from throughout India.
“Women’s Reservation bill is important and we need to bring it soon. I promise all women this protest will not stop until the bill is introduced. This Bill will help in the development of the nation. I request the BJP-led central government to introduce this Bill in parliament,” she mentioned.
CPI-M chief Sitaram Yechury, who inaugurated the strike programme at Jantar Mantar right here, additionally demanded that the Modi authorities ought to deliver this invoice on this session of Parliament. “We have come here to assure that our party will extend support to Kavitha in this protest till the bill is passed in Parliament. It is important to bring this bill to give equal opportunity to women in politics,” Yechury mentioned in his inaugural tackle.
When he entered Parliament for the primary time in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had mentioned his authorities’s precedence can be the Women’s Reservation Bill. It has been 9 years now, this invoice has not been launched once more in Parliament, he mentioned.
After a lot efforts, the federal government gave reservation for ladies in Panchayats. “If you can give reservation for women in Panchayats, why not in Parliament,” he requested and added a rustic won’t progress until ladies are given equal alternative in social, financial and political sphere.
Kavitha arrived in Delhi on Thursday and mentioned that she can be showing earlier than the Enforcement Directorate on March 11. On March 8, the BRS got here down closely on the Centre after the ED summoned Kavitha in reference to its ongoing probe of the Delhi excise coverage case, saying that the central probe businesses have grow to be an prolonged arm of the BJP.
Referring to the summons as “politically motivated”, BRS chief Ravula Sridhar Reddy had mentioned that besides ED and BJP, no one actually understands the case registered in reference to the new-withdrawn new Delhi excise coverage.
(With inputs from businesses)
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