By PTI
NEW DELHI: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief Okay Kavitha introduced a day-long starvation strike within the nationwide capital on Friday to press the demand for the passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill.
Addressing the media, Kavitha — the daughter of Telangana Chief Minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao — stated the invoice has been mendacity in chilly storage since 2010 and the Modi authorities has a historic alternative to get it handed in Parliament earlier than 2024.
The starvation strike might be held by her NGO Bharat Jagriti, she stated and added all political events have been invited to affix it. So far, 18 events, together with the CPI-M and the Shiv Sena, have confirmed their participation.
“About 500-600 members will sit on a hunger strike, but the attendance will be much more. More than 6,000 people and 18 political parties have confirmed their participation,” she stated.
CPI-M chief Sitaram Yechury will inaugurate the programme at 10 am.
The invoice, which seeks to order 33 per cent of seats in Lok Sabha and all state legislative assemblies for ladies, was launched within the Rajya Sabha in May 2008 and was referred to a standing committee.
In 2010, it was handed within the House and transmitted lastly to the Lok Sabha.
However, the invoice lapsed with the fifteenth Lok Sabha.
Kavitha stated Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised in each the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls that his authorities would carry this invoice and that it was additionally a part of the BJP’s election manifesto.
None of the BJP leaders raised this difficulty and the Modi authorities has did not get this invoice handed in Parliament regardless of having a majority, she stated, and added, “This is very saddening issue.”
The world is progressing solely by taking girls on equal footing with males.
This sadly has not occurred in India.
“I want to urge PM, all political leaders and especially President Droupadi Murmu and request the Government of India that it still has an opportunity as two more Parliament sessions are there (before the next election for passage of this bill),” she stated.
The Modi authorities, if it needs, can get the Women’s Reservation Bill handed similar to the Aadhaar Bill which was handed by it as a monetary invoice and by bypassing the Rajya Sabha, she added.
Further, Kavitha stated that India is in 148th place amongst 193 international locations by way of girls’s illustration.
There are solely 78 girls members out of 543 in Parliament, which is 14.4 per cent.
Unfortunately, it is extremely lower than the worldwide common.
In neighbouring Pakistan, there’s a 17 per cent reservation for ladies and their illustration in Bangladesh is greater than in India, she stated.
NEW DELHI: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief Okay Kavitha introduced a day-long starvation strike within the nationwide capital on Friday to press the demand for the passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill.
Addressing the media, Kavitha — the daughter of Telangana Chief Minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao — stated the invoice has been mendacity in chilly storage since 2010 and the Modi authorities has a historic alternative to get it handed in Parliament earlier than 2024.
The starvation strike might be held by her NGO Bharat Jagriti, she stated and added all political events have been invited to affix it. So far, 18 events, together with the CPI-M and the Shiv Sena, have confirmed their participation.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
“About 500-600 members will sit on a hunger strike, but the attendance will be much more. More than 6,000 people and 18 political parties have confirmed their participation,” she stated.
CPI-M chief Sitaram Yechury will inaugurate the programme at 10 am.
The invoice, which seeks to order 33 per cent of seats in Lok Sabha and all state legislative assemblies for ladies, was launched within the Rajya Sabha in May 2008 and was referred to a standing committee.
In 2010, it was handed within the House and transmitted lastly to the Lok Sabha.
However, the invoice lapsed with the fifteenth Lok Sabha.
Kavitha stated Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised in each the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls that his authorities would carry this invoice and that it was additionally a part of the BJP’s election manifesto.
None of the BJP leaders raised this difficulty and the Modi authorities has did not get this invoice handed in Parliament regardless of having a majority, she stated, and added, “This is very saddening issue.”
The world is progressing solely by taking girls on equal footing with males.
This sadly has not occurred in India.
“I want to urge PM, all political leaders and especially President Droupadi Murmu and request the Government of India that it still has an opportunity as two more Parliament sessions are there (before the next election for passage of this bill),” she stated.
The Modi authorities, if it needs, can get the Women’s Reservation Bill handed similar to the Aadhaar Bill which was handed by it as a monetary invoice and by bypassing the Rajya Sabha, she added.
Further, Kavitha stated that India is in 148th place amongst 193 international locations by way of girls’s illustration.
There are solely 78 girls members out of 543 in Parliament, which is 14.4 per cent.
Unfortunately, it is extremely lower than the worldwide common.
In neighbouring Pakistan, there’s a 17 per cent reservation for ladies and their illustration in Bangladesh is greater than in India, she stated.
