Jaya for early passage of Women’s Bill

CHENNAI, DEC 5: AIADMK chief J Jayalalitha today suggested raising the number of seats in both houses of Parliament and state assemblies ...

CHENNAI, DEC 5: AIADMK chief J Jayalalitha today suggested raising the number of seats in both houses of Parliament and state assemblies by one third and reserving the newly-created seats exclusively for women to overcome the opposition from political parties to the Women’s Reservation Bill in its existing form.

Calling it an injustice to women that the Bill providing for 33 per cent reservation for them in Lok Sabha and state assemblies had been put in “deep freeze,” she said in a statement issued here that there should not be anymore delay in getting the Bill passed.

“I do not think there can be any opposition or objection to this (her proposal). I call upon the Prime Minister to have a new Women’s Reservation Bill drafted on these lines and urged all the political parties to cooperate in its speedy passage in Parliament,” Jayalalitha said.

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Expressing her hope that the Prime Minister would heed her voice, she said there should not be any delay in providing for 33 per cent reservation for women inParliament and legislatures.

She also appealed to all the political parties to extended their full cooperation to realise “defacto and dejure” the reservation for women in Parliament and assemblies for in the advancement of our women lay the advancement of the nation.

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