LIVE | Day 3 in Parliament: Lok Sabha passes Women Reservation Bill after 8-hour debate
Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal today moved the Women's Reservation Bill for consideration and passage in the Lok Sabha, saying it is a step towards women empowerment.
Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal today (September 20) moved the Women's Reservation Bill for consideration and passage in the Lok Sabha, saying it is a step towards women empowerment.
The constitutional amendment bill was introduced in the Lower House on Tuesday. It was the first bill introduced in the new Parliament building. The Bill provides for 33 per cent reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and state Assemblies. The reservation will come into effect only after the completion of the census and delimitation exercise.
The Bill is likely to be passed today. Follow all the updates, live, from the Lok Sabha, and Rajya Sabha, here.
Live Updates
- 20 Sept 2023 8:00 PM IST
MPs voting on Women's Reservation Bill clauses
Lok Sabha MPs are currently voting on specific clauses of the bill at the request of an Opposition MP.
#WATCH | The Lok Sabha has passed the motion concerning the Women's Reservation Bill and is now taking up clauses of the bill pic.twitter.com/315ImcKAxX
— ANI (@ANI) September 20, 2023 - 20 Sept 2023 7:58 PM IST
Amit Shah's statement is hypocritical: Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi
#WATCH | Delhi: On Union Home Minister Amit Shah's statement in parliament, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi says, "His (HM Amit Shah) statement is hypocritical because a commitment made to the women of the country 9 and a half years ago in the 2014 manifesto and coming and… pic.twitter.com/LV61OqKV5N
— ANI (@ANI) September 20, 2023 - 20 Sept 2023 7:34 PM IST
Women's Reservation Bill passed
Lok Sabha passes Women's Reservation Bill granting 33% seats to women in Lok Sabha and state legislative assemblies. 454 MPs vote in favour of the bill, 2 MPs vote against it.
Lok Sabha passes Women's Reservation Bill granting 33% seats to women in Lok Sabha and state legislative assemblies
— ANI (@ANI) September 20, 2023
454 MPs vote in favour of the bill, 2 MPs vote against it pic.twitter.com/NTJz449MRX - 20 Sept 2023 7:20 PM IST
Lok Sabha MPs vote on Women’s Reservation Bill
#WATCH | Lok Sabha MPs vote on Women’s Reservation Bill pic.twitter.com/ZngFNhesc5
— ANI (@ANI) September 20, 2023 
20 Sept 2023 7:14 PM ISTRajya Sabha adjourned till September 21
Rajya Sabha has been adjourned till September 21 (Thursday).
- 20 Sept 2023 7:12 PM IST
Voting begins on Women's Reservation Bill
PM Modi in Lok Sabha during the voting on the Women's Reservation Bill
- 20 Sept 2023 7:01 PM IST
Opposition more concerned about polls rather than women's empowerment: BJP's Suvendu Adhikari
VIDEO | "They (opposition) don't have women empowerment in their mind but the next Lok Sabha elections. What they are doing is inspired by politics," says BJP leader @SuvenduWB on the Women’s Reservation Bill.#WomenReservationBill pic.twitter.com/49vkTKPDpO
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) September 20, 2023 - 20 Sept 2023 6:49 PM IST
Sushma ji had said this development journey is incomplete without women's representation: Union Minister Meghwal
#WATCH | On Women's Reservation Bill, Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal says, "....Sushma Swaraj ji had said that this development journey is incomplete without the representation of women in it..." pic.twitter.com/rozUwOJjr5
— ANI (@ANI) September 20, 2023 - 20 Sept 2023 6:43 PM IST
Women's quota bill was brought to Parliament four times earlier but not passed: Shah
Women's quota bill was brought to Parliament four times earlier but not passed, I appeal to Parliament to pass it unanimously now, said Amit Shah
- 20 Sept 2023 6:41 PM IST
Reserved one-third seats for women in 3 categories of General, SC, ST: Shah
Parliamentarians currently elected in 3 categories of General, SC, ST; we have reserved one-third seats for women in each of them, said Amit Shah
