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Speaker
to meet politicians on women's reservation bill
Wednesday July 13, 2011 05:16:11 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Lok Sabha
Speaker Meira Kumar will Thursday again try to build consensus at
an all-party meet over the controversial women's reservation bill
hanging fire for the last decade and a half.
According to the Lok Sabha secretariat, Meira Kumar will meet
leaders of all political parties in a committee room of library
building in the parliament complex, the same venue where a similar
meeting June 22 ended with differences persisting among political
groups.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), known
opponents of the legislation that has been okayed by the Rajya
Sabha, skipped that meeting.
The speaker has again invited them for the Thursday meeting that
is expected to be attended by some independent MPs. However, none
from the SP and the BSP confirmed if their representatives will
attend the meeting.
Sources said the speaker in her invitation letters sent to
political parties asked them to take steps for early passage of
the bill in the lower house of parliament.
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government led by the
Congress has been relentlessly trying to build an elusive
consensus on the contentious bill that is likely to be listed for
the monsoon session beginning Aug 1.
The bill, seeking 33 percent reservation to women in the Lok Sabha
and state assemblies, was passed in the upper house amid high
drama in March 2010.
Political parties particularly from the northern states -- the SP,
the BSP, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Janata Dal-United
(JD-U) -- seeking a quota within the quota for women from Other
Backward Classes (OBCs), have obstructed the passage of the bill
in parliament.
The battle for greater representation to women in lawmaking has
always been hampered by frayed tempers as different governments
since 1996 have tried without success to get the bill passed.
It was first drafted by the H.D. Deve Gowda-led United Front
government and brought to parliament in September 1996.
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