Women’s invoice: Demand for OBC quota features floor, concern over implementation
3 min readExpress News Service
NEW DELHI: As the Lok Sabha handed the long-awaited Women’s Reservation Bill on Wednesday, the clamour for quota for the Other Backward Classes (OBC) gained momentum with a number of opposition events elevating the pitch for the contentious challenge of quota throughout the quota.
While supporting the Bill, opposition events have additionally caught to their demand for instant implementation of it. Several Opposition leaders, together with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, TMC’s Mahua Moitra and NCP MP Supriya Sule slammed the Modi authorities for bringing a invoice that can’t come into impact earlier than the 2029 common election.
According to the invoice, launched by Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal on Wednesday, the supply for implementing 33% reservation for girls within the Lok Sabha and state assemblies will start after the census and delimitation are in keeping with the Constitution.
The delimitation, or redrawing of parliamentary constituencies shall be primarily based on the decadal census, which was indefinitely postponed post-Covid in 2021.
Participating within the debate, DMK chief Kanimozhi stated the clause pertaining to “after delimitation” within the invoice ought to be eliminated as there might be an inordinate delay within the implementation of the reservation for girls.
“How long should we wait to see this bill implemented? It can be easily implemented in the coming parliamentary elections. This bill is not a reservation but an act of removing bias and injustice,” stated Kanomozhi.
According to NCP chief Supriya Sule, the invoice launched by the UPA authorities in 2010 proposed that the quota would take impact instantly after its passage.
“The endless dithering on when will there be the next census, when there will be the next delimitation, will only ensure that the urgent need for reservation for women will be indefinitely delayed yet again,” stated TMC MP Mahua Moitra.
NEW DELHI: As the Lok Sabha handed the long-awaited Women’s Reservation Bill on Wednesday, the clamour for quota for the Other Backward Classes (OBC) gained momentum with a number of opposition events elevating the pitch for the contentious challenge of quota throughout the quota.
While supporting the Bill, opposition events have additionally caught to their demand for instant implementation of it. Several Opposition leaders, together with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, TMC’s Mahua Moitra and NCP MP Supriya Sule slammed the Modi authorities for bringing a invoice that can’t come into impact earlier than the 2029 common election.
According to the invoice, launched by Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal on Wednesday, the supply for implementing 33% reservation for girls within the Lok Sabha and state assemblies will start after the census and delimitation are in keeping with the Constitution.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
The delimitation, or redrawing of parliamentary constituencies shall be primarily based on the decadal census, which was indefinitely postponed post-Covid in 2021.
Participating within the debate, DMK chief Kanimozhi stated the clause pertaining to “after delimitation” within the invoice ought to be eliminated as there might be an inordinate delay within the implementation of the reservation for girls.
“How long should we wait to see this bill implemented? It can be easily implemented in the coming parliamentary elections. This bill is not a reservation but an act of removing bias and injustice,” stated Kanomozhi.
According to NCP chief Supriya Sule, the invoice launched by the UPA authorities in 2010 proposed that the quota would take impact instantly after its passage.
“The endless dithering on when will there be the next census, when there will be the next delimitation, will only ensure that the urgent need for reservation for women will be indefinitely delayed yet again,” stated TMC MP Mahua Moitra.
