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Women’S Bill: Mayawati urges government to remove provisions that delay implementation of women reservation | India News
LUCKNOW: A day after extending her assist for the ladies’s reservation invoice, BSP nationwide president Mayawati on Wednesday stated that the invoice has a couple of provisions due to which girls is not going to get reservation in lok sabha and state assemblies for a few years to return. “No less than for 15-16 years, girls is not going to get reservation due to these provisions.”
The invoice has not been launched with an trustworthy intent to present reservation to girls however to nook their votes within the coming Lok Sabha and state meeting elections, stated Mayawati. “And if it’s not so, then our social gathering requests the federal government to take away the 2 provisions or discover out a approach by which girls might get reservation as quickly as attainable.”
She additionally reiterated her demand for a separate quota for girls from SC and ST communities and never together with them within the already current 33% reservation for SCs and STs in the home and state assemblies however, on the similar time, she clarified that she is going to assist the invoice even when these calls for will not be met.
The 2 provisions of the ladies’s reservation invoice that she highlighted for inflicting delay in its implementation had been concerning the census and the delimitation of the lok sabha and state meeting segments. The invoice can come into impact solely after the census is performed after which the delimitation of each Lok Sabha and state meeting section is completed primarily based on the census figures.
Whereas the invoice will get handed within the parliament, the census and delimitation of lok sabha and state meeting segments will take a number of years, stated the previous UP CM, including that when the invoice turns into an Act, it can have a time period of solely 15 years.
The provisions of the invoice additionally say that when it turns into an Act, 33% of the overall seats reserved for SCs and STs in the home and state assemblies will probably be put aside for girls belonging to those communities. Mayawati has sought a separate quota for girls from these communities and in addition the OBCs.
She additionally hit out on the Congress “for advocating a separate quota for girls from SC, ST and OBC communities for their very own political features.”
The invoice has not been launched with an trustworthy intent to present reservation to girls however to nook their votes within the coming Lok Sabha and state meeting elections, stated Mayawati. “And if it’s not so, then our social gathering requests the federal government to take away the 2 provisions or discover out a approach by which girls might get reservation as quickly as attainable.”
She additionally reiterated her demand for a separate quota for girls from SC and ST communities and never together with them within the already current 33% reservation for SCs and STs in the home and state assemblies however, on the similar time, she clarified that she is going to assist the invoice even when these calls for will not be met.
The 2 provisions of the ladies’s reservation invoice that she highlighted for inflicting delay in its implementation had been concerning the census and the delimitation of the lok sabha and state meeting segments. The invoice can come into impact solely after the census is performed after which the delimitation of each Lok Sabha and state meeting section is completed primarily based on the census figures.
Whereas the invoice will get handed within the parliament, the census and delimitation of lok sabha and state meeting segments will take a number of years, stated the previous UP CM, including that when the invoice turns into an Act, it can have a time period of solely 15 years.
The provisions of the invoice additionally say that when it turns into an Act, 33% of the overall seats reserved for SCs and STs in the home and state assemblies will probably be put aside for girls belonging to those communities. Mayawati has sought a separate quota for girls from these communities and in addition the OBCs.
She additionally hit out on the Congress “for advocating a separate quota for girls from SC, ST and OBC communities for their very own political features.”
