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PM Modi praises MPs in Lok Sabha, says Women's Quota Bill will provide "Un
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
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."
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"Post-dated cheque": NCP MP Supriya Sule on Women's Bill
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Stating that neither census and delimitation has been done, the NCP MP also said that the Centre could have introduced the bill during the upcoming winter session
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Women's Reservation Bill will be introduced in Rajya Sabha today for passa
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
A day after the Women's Reservation Bill was passed with 454 members voting in favour of the legislation in the Lok Sabha, Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal, said that the bill will be introduced in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday for passage.
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Chhattisgarh CM Baghel calls for Women's Reservation Bill implementation b
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Speaking to the media at Raipur, CM Baghel said, "They (BJP) are a cheat. The Women's Reservation Bill that has been brought has been supported by Congress but it will be implemented after the Census and Delimitation take place. This will take years".
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BJD issues whip for Rajya Sabha MPs to support passage of Women's Reservat
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The Bill was passed following division with 454 members voting in favour of the legislation and two against it on the motion for the passage moved by Meghwal. The amendments moved by opposition members were negatived and there was also voting on clauses of the bill.
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Kiren Rijiju wins praise from Suvendu Adhikari for refuting TMC MP's claim
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
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
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"Major step, but...": BRS MLC K Kavitha flags "omissions" in women's reser
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
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
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"Women’s empowerment intrinsic to BJP’s work culture": Amit Shah
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
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.
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“Only thing missing…”: NC chief Farooq Abdullah endorses women’s quota Bil
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
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.
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“We voted against so that…”: Asaduddin Owaisi after passage of women’s quo
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
With 454 votes 'for' and 2 'against', the women's reservation Bill cleared its first legislative hurdle with a brute majority in the Lok Sabha. However, All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) MP Asaduddin Owaisi, who voted against the motion seeking the Bill's passage, along with par
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Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi hits out at Amit Shah over women’s
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Coming down heavily on Union Home Minister Amit Shah over his remarks explaining the rationale behind the formation of a Delimitation Committee amid calls from the Opposition to implement the draft women's quota law at the earliest, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi on Wednesday said
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Women were used as vote bank: BJP’s Sadhvi Pragya takes swipe at Oppn afte
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Hailing the landmark passage of the women's reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, BJP MP Sadhvi Pragya Thakur said the long-awaited draft legislation has brought much joy for women.
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