Women Reservation Bill : What’s There To Debate?

Indian women , the pillar of Indian Families. India is perhaps only place in the world other than nepal where goddess are worshipped. Women have played important role since thousands of years in India as we know today.

Be it be ahiliya , sita , draupadi or razia sultan or maharani laxmi bai in first independence movement or sarojini naidu , anne beasant in freedom struggle or Indira gandhi as prime minister or present day sonia , mamta and maya. Women have been part of politics , administration and formation of policies in India.

Women have played huge part in culture and all walks of life.  Kiran bedi , President pratibha patil , kasturba gandhi , ela bhatt, barkha dutta are few of numerous name who have made difference in their own way and contributed to diverse India.

India has around 600 million females and inspite of 63 years of independence social issues and social evila like dowry , female foeticide , maritial rape , domestic violence , rapes , gender bias, child marriage are still part and parcel of India.

The thriving and upcoming India needs contribution of women more than it ever did.  Women empowerment is the key to India’s goal of being developed nation. Without participation and respresentation of approx 50% of Indian Population how can India even think of becoming developed country?

Women Reservation Bill tabled today saw severe opposition from samajwadi party , RJD , Deve Gowda and few other parties. Now is there any thing to debate about this?. Its natural to have proper representation of woman. When Iraq can have 25% seats for women , giving 33% in India is certainly not a big issue.

Now coming to dalits , minorities which seems to be main issue fo sp , RJD.  Now kind of opposition they displayed in upper house shows how well mannered they are and how good they can do for minorities , women and general Indian masses. Never the less , they have a point about proper representation of all Indians which include dalits and minorities.

Now dalits and minorities concerns can be dealt with and must be dealt with. It can be worked out as it has been time and again worked out by constitution of India. Opposing the bill since 13 odd years has not helped any. Has it?. While congress has sonai gandhi , ambika soni , renuka and lot of other leaders who are woman , BJP has sushma swaraj as leader of opposition , Communist has bindra karat as strong voice , now same lalu , mulayam , gowda , how many strong woman voice to they have?. Why didn’t they give more tickets to women in these 13 years belonging to minority and dalit ?. They had that freedom and still have that freedom if they want to do it and are seriously interested in their stand.

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