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Saturday, June 6, 2009

Pass women's quota Bill and I'll kill myself: Sharad

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A controversial Bill that reserves 33 per cent seats for women in Parliament and state legislatures faced opposition in the form of emotional blackmail in the Lok Sabha on Friday.

“We may not have the numbers but I will consume poison and die here but not allow the passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill,” Janata Dal-United (JD-U) chief Sharad Yadav said.

In the Presidential address to both Houses of Parliament the government has stated that one of the first steps it wants to initiate in the next 100 days is early passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill.

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Monday, March 24, 2008

India has most elected women representatives

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India has more elected women representatives than all other countries put together. According to the Ministry of Panchayati Raj's mid-term appraisal of the 'State of the Panchayats 2006-07', "No less than 10 lakh women are in our panchayati raj (local self government) institutions, comprising 37 per cent of all those elected and rising to as high as 54 per cent in Bihar, which has 50 per cent reservation for women."

The Constitution (73rd Amendment) Act (1992), which gave constitutional status to panchayati raj institutions, reserved 33 per cent of the seats in panchayats for women.

Speaking at a recent screening of short films on women in New Delhi, Minister for Panchayati Raj Mani Shankar Aiyar emphasised: "There are more women elected representatives in India than the rest of the world. Eat your heart out."

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