First lady PM, Prez have been from Cong, get together introduced Women’s Reservation Bill: Supriya Sule
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NEW DELHI: NCP chief Supriya Sule on Monday strongly defended the Congress after the BJP criticised it over the Women’s Reservation Bill difficulty, saying the primary lady prime minister and president have been from the Congress and the laws was additionally introduced by it.
But the invoice couldn’t be handed because of lack of numbers, she mentioned.
Participating within the dialogue in Lok Sabha on “Parliamentary Journey of 75 years starting from Samvidhan Sabha — Achievements, Experiences, Memories and Learnings”, Sule urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to carry the Women’s Reservation Bill and guaranteed that her get together would assist it.
“Most women MPs have been asking about the Women’s Reservation Bill. Everyone sitting here has been concerned about it,” she mentioned on the primary day of the five-day session of Parliament.
Responding to BJP MP Rakesh Singh’s remarks asking what had the Congress performed about guaranteeing reservation for girls regardless of being in energy for many years, Sule mentioned, “I would like to set the record straight…the first woman president of India, Pratibha Patil, was from the Congress, the first woman PM of the country, Indira Gandhi, was from the Congress, the first woman speaker, Meira Kumar, was from the Congress.”
“I would like to put one more thing on record which Rakesh Singh seems to have missed out, the Women’s Reservation Bill was brought by the Congress, unfortunately we did not have the numbers and we could not get it passed,” she mentioned.
Sule additionally hailed former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and former Maharashtra chief minister and her father Sharad Pawar for bringing in 33 per cent reservation for girls in each panchayat.
“I am very proud to say that Maharashtra was the first state to bring it (reservation) to 33 per cent and then we raised it to 50 per cent, this is what has been done for women,” the NCP chief mentioned.
She additionally urged the prime minister to get the Women’s Reservation Bill handed.
“I take this opportunity that since we are all deliberating here, 50 per cent of India’s population is women…maybe the first decision the prime minister can take is (to bring this bill) and we all will support him if he brings in reservation for women in Parliament and assemblies,” Sule mentioned.
The final concrete growth on the difficulty was in 2010 when Rajya Sabha handed the invoice amid a ruckus with marshals escorting out some MPs who opposed the transfer to order 33 per cent seats for girls in Lok Sabha and state assemblies, however the invoice lapsed because it couldn’t be handed by Lok Sabha.
While the BJP and the Congress have all the time supported the invoice, opposition by different events and calls for from some for quota for backward courses throughout the girls’s quota have been key sticking factors.
A day forward of the Parliament session, a number of events at an all-party meet on Sunday had made a powerful pitch for bringing and passing the ladies’s reservation invoice throughout the session, however the authorities mentioned an “appropriate decision will be taken at the appropriate time”.
In her remarks, Sule additionally made a slew of solutions because the parliamentarians transfer into the brand new Parliament constructing.
The functioning of Parliament is to shift to the brand new constructing on Tuesday.
She urged the federal government to nominate a deputy speaker, noting that the present Lok Sabha time period is the one one through which there has not been any deputy speaker.
She additionally known as for rising parliamentary sittings and classes.
Sule mentioned that because the variety of constituents are consistently going up, the MPLADS funds are usually not sufficient and one thing ought to be performed about it.
She asserted that Question Hour shouldn’t be disrupted and in addition known as for strengthening personal member invoice mechanism.
NEW DELHI: NCP chief Supriya Sule on Monday strongly defended the Congress after the BJP criticised it over the Women’s Reservation Bill difficulty, saying the primary lady prime minister and president have been from the Congress and the laws was additionally introduced by it.
But the invoice couldn’t be handed because of lack of numbers, she mentioned.
Participating within the dialogue in Lok Sabha on “Parliamentary Journey of 75 years starting from Samvidhan Sabha — Achievements, Experiences, Memories and Learnings”, Sule urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to carry the Women’s Reservation Bill and guaranteed that her get together would assist it.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
“Most women MPs have been asking about the Women’s Reservation Bill. Everyone sitting here has been concerned about it,” she mentioned on the primary day of the five-day session of Parliament.
Responding to BJP MP Rakesh Singh’s remarks asking what had the Congress performed about guaranteeing reservation for girls regardless of being in energy for many years, Sule mentioned, “I would like to set the record straight…the first woman president of India, Pratibha Patil, was from the Congress, the first woman PM of the country, Indira Gandhi, was from the Congress, the first woman speaker, Meira Kumar, was from the Congress.”
“I would like to put one more thing on record which Rakesh Singh seems to have missed out, the Women’s Reservation Bill was brought by the Congress, unfortunately we did not have the numbers and we could not get it passed,” she mentioned.
Sule additionally hailed former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and former Maharashtra chief minister and her father Sharad Pawar for bringing in 33 per cent reservation for girls in each panchayat.
“I am very proud to say that Maharashtra was the first state to bring it (reservation) to 33 per cent and then we raised it to 50 per cent, this is what has been done for women,” the NCP chief mentioned.
She additionally urged the prime minister to get the Women’s Reservation Bill handed.
“I take this opportunity that since we are all deliberating here, 50 per cent of India’s population is women…maybe the first decision the prime minister can take is (to bring this bill) and we all will support him if he brings in reservation for women in Parliament and assemblies,” Sule mentioned.
The final concrete growth on the difficulty was in 2010 when Rajya Sabha handed the invoice amid a ruckus with marshals escorting out some MPs who opposed the transfer to order 33 per cent seats for girls in Lok Sabha and state assemblies, however the invoice lapsed because it couldn’t be handed by Lok Sabha.
While the BJP and the Congress have all the time supported the invoice, opposition by different events and calls for from some for quota for backward courses throughout the girls’s quota have been key sticking factors.
A day forward of the Parliament session, a number of events at an all-party meet on Sunday had made a powerful pitch for bringing and passing the ladies’s reservation invoice throughout the session, however the authorities mentioned an “appropriate decision will be taken at the appropriate time”.
In her remarks, Sule additionally made a slew of solutions because the parliamentarians transfer into the brand new Parliament constructing.
The functioning of Parliament is to shift to the brand new constructing on Tuesday.
She urged the federal government to nominate a deputy speaker, noting that the present Lok Sabha time period is the one one through which there has not been any deputy speaker.
She additionally known as for rising parliamentary sittings and classes.
Sule mentioned that because the variety of constituents are consistently going up, the MPLADS funds are usually not sufficient and one thing ought to be performed about it.
She asserted that Question Hour shouldn’t be disrupted and in addition known as for strengthening personal member invoice mechanism.
