New Delhi: President of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Sharad Pawar, has acknowledged that the “mentality” of north India and Parliament does not look like conducive to granting girls reservation within the Lok Sabha and legislative assemblies. The former Union minister made the remarks on Saturday throughout an interview along with his daughter, Lok Sabha member Supriya Sule, at a programme hosted by the Pune Doctors’ Association. He was responding to a query in regards to the Women’s Reservation Bill, which goals to order 33% of seats within the Lok Sabha and all state legislative assemblies for girls however has but to be handed, and whether or not this demonstrates that the nation is still not mentally ready to simply accept women’s management. Pawar acknowledged that he has been talking on this subject in Parliament since he was a member of the Congress Lok Sabha.
“The ‘mansikta’ (mentality) of Parliament, especially of north India, has not been conducive (on this issue). I can recall that when I was a Congress Lok Sabha member, I used to talk about the issue of reservations for women in Parliament. Once after completing my speech, I turned back and saw that majority of MPs from my party got up and left. This means even for people from my party, it was not digestible,” Pawar quotes.
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The NCP chief acknowledged that every one (events) ought to proceed to work to get the invoice handed. “When I used to be the chief minister of Maharashtra, reservation for girls was launched in native our bodies just like the Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samiti. It was opposed initially however later individuals accepted it,” he stated.
(With Agencies Inputs)
