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Shahnaz to attend White
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Petrol, diesel prices to
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Govt. committed to quota
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Nitish justifies setting
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MHW dharna against Women
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Opposing the Women Reservation Bill in its present form,
Movement for Human Welfare (MHW) has called for Dharna at Azad
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Peace still eludes
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Cow Commission to be set
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Will Dawood's facing law
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1 killed, 2 hurt as
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Canadians have unanimously supported the niqab
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Zakia Jaffri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jaffri
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MHW dharna against Women
Reservation in Mumbai :
Opposing the Women Reservation Bill in its present form,
Movement for Human Welfare (MHW) has called for Dharna at Azad
Maidan on 31st March from 2:00 PM.....Read
Full
Govt
rules out OBC quota in Women's Bill |
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New Delhi:
The Samajwadi Party (SP) and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) said Sunday
they will convey their strong opposition to the women's reservation
bill at Monday's all-party meeting called by Finance Minister Pranab
Mukherjee even as the ruling Congress maintained it will try its
best to forge a consensus on the legislation.
"We are opposed to the bill in its
present form. We have given some suggestions to the government to
modify the bill and one of them should be accepted," SP spokesman
Mohan Singh told IANS.
He said the government should reduce the women's quota to 20 percent
from 33 percent and allow political parties to give reservation to
women in the distribution of party tickets. Another possibility was
to keep reservation for minorities, backward classes and Dalits in
the 33 percent quota for women.
The SP spokesperson said the party did not have much hope from
Monday's meeting as Congress president Sonia Gandhi was against any
changes in the present bill to reserve 33 percent seats in the
parliament and legislatures for women. The bill was passed in the
Rajya Sabha March 9.
"The meeting may only be a formality. I don't think it will yield a
result," he said.
"When Sonia Gandhi wants the bill to be passed in the form it was in
the Rajya Sabha, I don't think Pranab Mukherjee or Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh will accept anything else," he said.
"The Representation of People's Act should be amended to make it
mandatory for political parties to give 20 percent seats to women in
distribution of tickets," he said.
RJD Rajya Sabha MP Rajniti Prasad reiterated the party's opposition
to the bill. He said when the constitution was sought to be amended
to provide reservation to women, the interests of minorities,
backward classes and Dalits should be taken care of.
"The bill has been brought to finish parties which gained prominence
after the Mandal Commission (recommendations were implemented)," he
said.
Though Janata Dal-United (JD-U) president Sharad Yadav has also
opposed the bill, the party is divided on the issue. The party's
senior leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has come out in
support of the bill. Yadav is expected to represent the JD-U at
Monday's meeting.
The Congress said the party will try to evolve a consensus on the
issue.
"We will try our best to create a consensus. We will try to persuade
(parties opposing the bill) to realise that it was for the
betterment of society and of women who comprise more than half of
the country's population," Congress spokesman Shakeel Ahmed said.
Both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Left, which support
the bill, have said they were willing to consider any other proposal
if it is brought by the government.
The meeting on Monday comes against the backdrop of the government's
assurance to hold consultations with political parties before the
bill is tabled in the Lok Sabha.
The bill was passed by the Rajya Sabha last month amidst strong
protests from the SP, RJD, the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), a section
of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) and the Bahujan Samaj Party.
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