Women’s Reservation Bill: The Women’s Reservation Bill, after over a decade, is about to get a revival as BRS leader Ok Kavitha, with the support of 18 parties will maintain hunger strike to press the demand for the passage of the essential invoice on Friday.
The invoice, which seeks to order 33 per cent seats in Lok Sabha and all state legislative assemblies for girls, was launched within the Rajya Sabha in May 2008 and was referred to a standing committee.
In 2010, it was handed within the House and transmitted lastly to the Lok Sabha. However, the invoice lapsed with the fifteenth Lok Sabha.
Addressing the media, Kavitha — the daughter of Telangana Chief Minister Ok Chandrashekar Rao — mentioned the invoice has been mendacity in chilly storage since 2010 and the Modi authorities has a historic alternative to get its handed in Parliament before 2024.
The hunger strike might be held by her NGO Bharat Jagriti, she mentioned and added all political parties have been invited to affix it. So far, 18 parties, together with the CPI-M and the Shiv Sena, have confirmed their participation.
“About 500-600 members will sit on a hunger strike, but the attendance will be much more. More than 6,000 people and 18 political parties have confirmed their participation,” she mentioned.
CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury will inaugurate the programme at 10 am. Kavitha mentioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised in each 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls that his authorities would convey this invoice and that it was additionally a part of the BJP’s election manifesto, she mentioned.
None of the BJP leaders raised this difficulty and the Modi authorities has didn’t get this invoice handed in Parliament regardless of having a majority, she mentioned, and added, “This is very saddening issue.” The world is progressing solely by taking girls on equal footing with males. This sadly has not occurred in India.
“I want to urge PM, all political leaders and especially President Droupadi Murmu and request the Government of India that it still has an opportunity as two more Parliament sessions are there (before the next election for passage of this bill),” she mentioned.
The Modi authorities, if it needs, can get the Women’s Reservation Bill handed similar to the Aadhaar Bill which was handed by it as a monetary invoice and by bypassing the Rajya Sabha, she added.
Further, Kavitha mentioned that India is on the 148th place amongst 193 nations by way of girls’s illustration. There are solely 78 girls members out of 543 in Parliament, which is 14.4 per cent. Unfortunately, it is vitally lower than the worldwide common. In neighbouring Pakistan, there may be 17 per cent reservation for girls and their illustration in Bangladesh is increased than India, she mentioned.
Dharna & ED grill
Daughter of Telangana Chief Minister Ok Chandrasekhar Rao, Kavitha, who has been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate within the Delhi liquor coverage case, accused the Centre of diverting nation’s consideration from actual points by concentrating on the opposition.
Hitting out at probe company, she mentioned on March 2, she had introduced her hunger strike to boost voice for girls’s reservation and after that she bought ED’s summon and it’s not coincident.
(With PTI enter)
