LIVE | Day 4 in Parliament - RS unanimously passes Women's Reservation Bill
By : The Federal
Update: 2023-09-21 04:57 GMT
2023-09-21 06:04 GMT
Ranjan questions govt over delay in passing women's reservation bill
Ranjan: 13 years ago we had passed this Bill in Rajya Sabha. You have brought it today after being in power for 9.5 years. Why did it take so long. Why did you need this special session to bring this Bill. You have put in a hurdle of census and delimitation. Yesterday in the LS you (govt) justified saying if census and delimitation clauses weren't added, we would have challenged the Bill in courts. You are people who did no consultation before demonetisation or before imposing a lockdown so why now, for giving women reservation, do you have this worry of us challenging the provisions? Is this not merely an election stunt? You want to reap electoral benefits from the Bill. You do not want to give reservation immediately because you do not want to take away share of men and give it to women. You want to first conduct delimitation, increase the total number of seats and only then increase the share for women.
2023-09-21 06:00 GMT
Ranjan: You didn't invite President Murmu to Parliament's inauguration
Ranjan: You are talking about women worship but you don't even invite our woman President, a tribal, to Parliament's inauguration.
2023-09-21 05:56 GMT
PT Usha takes the Chair
PT Usha takes the Chair.
Ranjan: I welcome the Bill but I wish to register my displeasure at the title. You have associated the name of this Bill (Nati Shakti Vandan) with worship, religiosity. This is a bill for empowerment, it is our right. We do not want your worship. We have seen what your worship of women is like when women wrestlers were sitting in protest or women in Manipur were facing atrocities.
2023-09-21 05:49 GMT
Meghwal speaking in RS
Meghwal: this is a constitution amendment bill for women empowerment, a step to bolster India's strides towards becoming a developed nation during Amrit Kaal. Ever since Modi government has come to power, many steps have been taken towards women empowerment in tune with the constitutional vision of ensuring equality of all. All schemes like Mudra yojana, Jan dhan accounts, building toilets for all were part of these steps.
Meghwal: New Articles, amendments to existing Articles in Constitution being made to provide horizontal and vertical reservation for women, including SC and ST women, for 1/3rd seats in Parliament and all state legislatures. Delimitation commission to be set up to determine which seats will be reserved for women.
2023-09-21 05:42 GMT
Women's Reservation Bill tabled in RS
Law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal moves motion for consideration of the Bill.
2023-09-21 05:39 GMT
Women MPs to conduct RS proceedings
Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar decides that for the proceedings today, aside from the existing panel of vice chairpersons of the RS, a host of other women MPs will also be given turns to conduct proceedings of the House during the debate on the women reservation Bill.
Women MPs who will preside (apart from those already on the panel of vice chairs) include PT Usha, Jaya Bachchan, Mahua Majhi, Saroj Pandey, Rajni Patil, Fauzia Khan, Dola Sen, Indubala Goswami, Kanimozhi Somu, Kavita Patidar, Kalpana Saini, among others.