Women's Reservation Bill Is "Incomplete" Says Rahul Gandhi (image: instagram,.com/incindia)
While addressing the Lok Sabha in the Women’s Reservation Bill debate on Wednesday, Congress leader and MP Rahul Gandhi said that the Bill is “incomplete” without OBC reservation for women.
“There is one thing that makes this Bill incomplete. I would like to have seen OBC reservation included in this Bill. I think it is very important that a large chunk of India’s population, a large chunk of India’s women, should have access to this reservation. That is missing in this Bill,” he said in the Sabha.
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He then continued that there should be an immediate implementation of the legislation without waiting for census or delimitation. “There are also two things that seems strange to me; one is the idea that you require a new census to implement this bill and the second is that you require a new delimitation to implement this bill. In my view, it is quite simple, this bill can be implemented today by giving 33% of the seats in the Lok Sabha and the Vidan Sabha to India’s women,” Mr. Gandhi said.
Adding more, he spoke: “So I wonder, if this is not designed to push the ball forward… to push the ball forward 7, 8, 9 years and then let this thing play out the way it does.”
He then takes dig at BJP by referring them as “my friends” and remarked that they always tend to take attention of the people away from the other issues, citing Adani issue as one.
Women’s Reservation Bill, also called as Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam was introduced in the Parliament by Union law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal on Wednesday. Today, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi took the party’s lead on the debate of the Bill. She said she supports the passage of the bill but demands implementation of sub-quota and caste census.
