A day after the Women's Reservation bill was cleared in the Lok Sabha, National Commission for Women Chairperson Rekha Sharma on Thursday said that the Bill is a historic imperative for our nation.
"Leaders from the INDIA bloc have the same low mentality that's why they raised this issue. Who gave Droupadi Murmu the most respected post? We gave her so much respect. Who are they to raise this issue?" Sarkar told ANI.
On Wednesday, the Women’s Reservation Bill – the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Amendment) Bill, 2023, was passed by Lok Sabha with 454 members voting in favour of the legislation and two against it.
PM Modi, while addressing the Lok Sabha, credited MPs of all parties for supporting the passage of the Women's Reservation Bill, and said, "Yesterday was a golden moment of India's Parliamentary journey. All the members of this House deserve that golden moment."
As per the list of Business, Union Minister of Law and Justice Arjun Ram Meghwal will move the Repealing and Amending Bill, 2023 which was passed in the Lok Sabha in July this year. The Bill is now pending in the Rajya Sabha.
Accusing the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal of stooping to a new low, West Bengal's Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday praised Union Minister Kiren Rijiju for refuting the claim of TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar that ISRO's women scientists were not being paid their s
As the women's reservation bill was passed in the Lok Sabha, marking a legislative landmark for the country, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC K Kavitha, one of the key advocates for a legislation providing a fairer representation of women in law-making bodies, on Wednesday called it a maj
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said that women empowerment was not a political issue for the BJP but an idea that is intrinsic to its work culture.
National Conference (NC) president and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, Farooq Abdullah, said on Wednesday that the passage of the women's reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha marked a landmark achievement but the only aspect missing was the inclusion of OBC women in the quota ambit.