LIVE | Day 3 in Parliament: Lok Sabha passes Women Reservation Bill after 8-hour debate
We have to start somewhere: BJP MP Sumalatha Ambareesh
#WATCH | On Women's Reservation Bill, Lok Sabha MP Sumalatha Ambareesh says, " There has to be a start somewhere, even we should ask questions, what this bill was not introduced before 2014?...there should be a will and conviction for that and today, PM Modi has shown that he has… pic.twitter.com/NXYgo7tR6P— ANI (@ANI) September 20, 2023
For BJP, women's empowerment is not a political issue: Shah
VIDEO | “For some parties, the issue of women empowerment can be a political agenda or a slogan to win elections. However, for my party and my leader Narendra Modi, women empowerment is not a political issue,” says Union Home minister Amit Shah in Lok Sabha. pic.twitter.com/bDomsqEcfI— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) September 20, 2023
Issue of principles and beliefs, says Amit Shah
"Passage of women's reservation bill will mark begin a new era. For some parties, women empowerment is a political tool for vote bank politics, but for BJP and Narendra Modi, is it a matter of principles and beliefs," says Amit Shah
Amit Shah speaking now
Amit Shah speaking now in LS on the Women's Reservation Bill.
Get a caste census done at the earliest: Rahul
Bill is incomplete: Rahul
Rahul Gandhi: I support the Women's Reservation Bill. Yesterday there was talk about the Sengol and the symbolism of the transfer of power... from our inception, we gave a vote to all people and that was a sign of transfer of real power. .. in many ways the fight taking place today is between transferring power and taking it away. The panchayati raj reservation for women was the first step of real transfer of power to women and today, this (WRB) is yet another good step... in my view there is one thing that makes this Bill look incomplete. There should have been reservation for OBC women in this Bill. A large chunk of women being excluded from this Bill. The other 2 strange provisions in the Bill are the requirement of Census and delimitation before implementation. Is this not designed to push the ball forward by 8 to 10 years and then see how things go forward.. my friends always want to take attention away from other issues, Adani being one of them... This is a nice building, nice peacocks on the walls and elsewhere but I would have liked to see the President of India in this House.. the other thing the government wants to distract from is the demand for a caste census. I took a look at the different institutions that define how this country moves forward; LS, RS, judiciary, press... and I looked at the participation of OBC population in these institutions. The most important set of people who define how this govt functions are the 90 secretaries in various departments. I asked how many of them are from the OBC community. I was shocked at the answer. Only 3 are OBCs and these secretaries control just 5 percent of India's Budget.
'Huge step': Rahul Gandhi
Huge step in transfer of power to women was Panchayati Raj, this is another big step: Rahul Gandhi during debate on Women's Reservation Bill
Rahul Gandhi speaking now
Rahul Gandhi speaking on Women's Reservation Bill in LS