New Delhi:
Reviews of the Girls’s Reservation Invoice being cleared by the Union cupboard has been welcomed by the Congress, which had began the initiative to extend the house for girls in parliament. At present the get together’s communications in-charge Jairam Ramesh not solely posted a historical past of the invoice on X, previously Twitter, he additionally re-posted a 2018 letter from Rahul Gandhi to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which is now being broadly circulated.
The UPA authorities had drafted the invoice in 2008, but it surely was on freeze after being handed by the Higher Home two yr later. Although the BJP and the Congress have at all times supported the invoice, there was hurdles within the type of opposition by different events and calls for for quota for backward courses inside the ladies’s quota.
Mr Gandhi’s tweet, dated July 16, 2018, learn: “Our PM says he is a crusader for girls’s empowerment? Time for him to rise above get together politics, walk-his-talk & have the Girls’s Reservation Invoice handed by Parliament. The Congress affords him its unconditional help.”
Within the letter, he identified that the invoice was handed within the Higher Home with BJP help and was referred to as “historic and momentous” by late Union minister Arun Jaitley, who was then the chief of the Opposition. “On the difficulty of empowering ladies, allow us to stand collectively, rise above get together politics and ship India a message that we consider the time for change has come,” he had added.
Our PM says he is a crusader for girls’s empowerment? Time for him to rise above get together politics, walk-his-talk & have the Girls’s Reservation Invoice handed by Parliament. The Congress affords him its unconditional help.
Hooked up is my letter to the PM. #MahilaAakroshpic.twitter.com/IretXFFvvK
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) July 16, 2018
Forward of the Parliament session, there was an enormous buzz concerning the authorities backing the invoice, and leaders from the Opposition pushing for girls’s reservation.
The matter was additionally raised throughout Day One’s proceedings for the Particular session.
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, talking on the dialogue on ‘Parliamentary Journey of 75 years Ranging from Samvidhan Sabha – Achievements, Experiences, Reminiscences And Learnings”, pointed to the skewed gender ratio amongst elected representatives, saying parliament has solely 14 per cent ladies, and their quantity in legislative assemblies is simply 10 per cent.
Later within the night, Mr Ramesh posted on X, previously Twitter: “It has been a long-standing demand of the Congress get together to implement ladies’s reservation. We welcome the reported resolution of the Union Cupboard and await the main points of the Invoice. This might have very properly been mentioned within the all-party assembly earlier than the Particular Session, and consensus might have been constructed as an alternative of working underneath a veil of secrecy”.
The federal government had made no announcement about its discussions at this night’s cupboard assembly. It even skipped the normal media briefing after the meet, pushing up the suspense quotient. Later, sources mentioned the ladies’s quota invoice has been given a go-ahead from the cupboard.
