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If census, delimitation won't happen how Women's Reservation Bill will be implemented :Kapil Sibal 

Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Tuesday that if the BJP wanted a political advantage in 2024 they would have introduced the Women's Reservation Bill in 2014 as census and delimitation have to be done before making the bill a reality.

ANI Sep 19, 2023 23:36 IST googleads

Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal (Photo/ANI)

New Delhi [India], September 19 (ANI): Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Tuesday that if the BJP wanted a political advantage in 2024 they would have introduced the Women's Reservation Bill in 2014 as census and delimitation have to be done before making the bill a reality. 
"They (BJP govt) want political advantage in 2024 and want to tell women that they did such a historic thing...they should have done this in 2014. What is so historic about this?...there will be a census and delimitation before the Women's Reservation Bill is implemented. What if census and delimitation don't happen?" Kapil Sibal said. 
"They're just showing dreams to women that they will get a reservation in 2029...they can't think anything other than politics," he added. 
Earlier in the day, Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal introduced the Bill in the first sitting of Lok Sabha in the new Parliament building. The bill has been named "Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam."
Introducing the bill in the House the Minister said "This bill is in relation to women empowerment. By amending Article 239AA of the Constitution, 33 per cent of seats will be reserved for women in the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi. Article 330A reservations of seats for SC/ST in the House of People."
Arjun Meghwal said that once the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam is passed, the number of seats for women in Lok Sabha will increase to 181.
Discussion for passing of the Bill in the House will be taken up on Wednesday, September 20. The Bill will be taken up in Rajya Sabha on September 21 government sources said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the government is bringing a new Bill to reserve one-third of all seats for women in the Lok Sabha and the state legislative assemblies and that God has given him the opportunity to take forward the task of women empowerment.
Members of Parliament on Tuesday proceeded to the new Parliament building after bidding farewell to the old building.
Women’s Reservation Bill was passed by Rajya Sabha in 2010 and it was not taken up in Lok Sabha and lapsed in the lower House of Parliament. (ANI)

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