#LokSabha passes Women's Reservation Bill granting 33% seats to women in Lok Sabha and state legislative assemblies
454 votes in favour
and 2 against
#AmitShah in #LokSabha ....#WomenReservationBill2023 has nothing to do BJP's political intent.
"Passage of women's reservation bill will mark start of 'new era' as PM #Modi presented vision of #women-led progress in #G20".
"There are 90 secretaries of the Govt of India...How many of the 90 people come from the OBC community? I was shocked and shattered by the answer...I want to answer this...Only three secretaries belong to the OBC community...," says Congress MP Rahul Gandhi in Lok Sabha.
Women's quota bill brought to Parliament four times earlier but not passed, appeal to Parliament to pass it unanimously now: Amit Shah
“Yesterday was a day which will be written with golden letters in India’s parliamentary history as the bill to give reservation to women, which was pending for years, was tabled".
"We won't let this bill get stuck in technical things," says Union Law Minister
@arjunrammeghwal in Lok Sabha during debate on Women's Reservation Bill
Meghwal says, "....Sushma Swaraj ji had said that this development journey is incomplete without the representation of women in it..."
Two Naga MP, Tokheho Yepthomi of NDPP and NPF member from Outer Manipur also supported the Women Quota Bill
"You are not queen ...," BJP MP to Sonia Gandhi :::::: Amid general mood and wave to pass Women Reservation Bill, AIMIM leader Owaisi opposes draft legislation
"You are not queen ...," BJP lawmaker's dig at Sonia Gandhi during the debate on historic Women Quota Bill.
“On behalf of my party, I stand to oppose this (Women’s Reservation) legislation because the justification being given to bring the legislation is to ensure that more women get elected into the Parliament and the state assemblies.
If that is the justification, why has that justification not been extended to the OBC and Muslim women, where their representation in this 'August House' is minimal,” AIMIM chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi said in Lok Sabha during the debate.
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| Bhumi Pednekar, Shehnaaz Gill and others in New Parliament Building |
Taking a swipe at Opposition INDIA bloc, BJP MP from Jharkhand Nishikant Dubey on Wednesday said Congress MPs including Sonia Gandhi had insulted and thrashed their allies Samajwadi Party in the Well of Lok Sabha in 2011.
"When I talk about the Bill to bring reservation in promotion, all those in these benches will be up on their feet. (Congress minister) V Narayanasamy was presenting the Bill. Samajwadi Party's Yashvir Singh was a Scheduled Caste MP; these people talk about Scheduled Castes and Tribes. Yashvir Singh had snatched the papers from Mr Narayanasamy," he said.
"In this Lok Sabha, Sonia Gandhi had then tried to grab his (Yashvir Singh) collar. I had then told her, 'you are not the dictator here, you are not the queen, you cannot fight here'," Mr Dubey said.
"Mulayam Singh Yadav had then said that his party's MPs would not have been saved if the BJP did not intervene. You tried to murder MPs. Now you have come together in an alliance," he said.
"The two women who spoke in favour of the women reservation Bill the most were Bengal's Geeta Mukherjee and BJP's Sushma Swaraj. We would not see this date without them. But Sonia ji did not mention them. What kind of politics is this?," Dubey said,
Ms Mukherjee was CPI's seven-time MP from Bengal's Panskura between 1980 and 2000.
Sharad Yadav's "Par-kati" (Short Hair) Remarks:
Nishikant Dubey referred to a much controversial remark by veteran politician late Sharad Yadav (of JD-U) on the women reservation Bill that had sparked a huge row.
The women reservation Bill was first introduced in Parliament by the HD Deve Gowda government in 1996. The next year, during a discussion on the legislation, Yadav opposed the move.
During his speech, he had remarked that the Bill would empower only "par-kati women with short hair" - a euphemism for educated and modern women.
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