Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today demanded the immediate implementation of the Women’s Reservation Bill and alleged that the government does not want to do this while distracting from the demand for caste census.
Speaking to the media, Rahul Gandhi said, ‘Women's reservation is a good step, but two conditions have been imposed on it. Before implementing this, census and delimitation will have to be conducted. It will take many years to do these. Women's reservation can be implemented from today itself’. He said this is not a complicated matter, but the government does not want to do this. This will come into effect after 10 years from today. It is not even known whether it will happen or not. ‘BJP should remove these two points on Census and delimitation (from Women’s Reservation Bill) and should give women their due participation. They should also make public the data on caste census which we did,’ Wayanad MP added.
The Constitution (128th Amendment) Bill, or the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, which reserves one-third of the seats in Lok Sabha and state Assemblies for women, was passed in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday with 214 MPs voting in favour of it. The Lok Sabha had passed the Bill a day earlier, on Wednesday. The Bill will now go to President Droupadi Murmu and will become a law after she gives her assent.