After the Cabinet approved the Women Reservation Bill, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has said that demand for the Women Reservation Bill was initiated by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and Sonia Gandhi.
According to sources, the Union Cabinet on Monday cleared the Women's Reservation Bill, which seeks to reserve 33 per cent quota in Lok Sabha and state legislative assemblies.
Union Cabinet on Monday cleared the Women's Reservation Bill, sources said on Monday. The meeting of the Union Cabinet was held at Parliament House Annexe in Delhi.
Former Bihar Chief Minister and Hindustani Awam Morcha leader Jitan Ram Manjhi said that women from lower literacy rate communities should be given reservations in the Women's Reservation Bill.
"This is the beginning of a new era in the new parliament building and in this era the participation of women must increase. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik also for many years had been requesting to the Central government to table the long-pending Women Reservation Bill," said Misra.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Friday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding that the Government of India should provide 33 per cent reservation to women in the Parliament.
"There are a significant number of people who believe in that ideology, following it and it's a disciplined way of life. They think that Sanatan means only caste system. They project only in that way. So many good things are there," she said.
"INDIA alliance will do what they want to do. They (BRS) are liars. They said that the first CM of Telangana would be from the Dalit community, then they made BRS a family party, and they now they are talking about women's reservation," Congress leader Raj told ANI.
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC K Kavitha on Tuesday wrote a letter to the chiefs of all 47 political parties including West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, calling upon them to set aside political differences and prioritise the passage of the Women's Reservation Bill in the upcom
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC Kalvakuntla Kavitha led Bharat Jagruthi organised a round table discussion for the passage of the Women's Reservation Bill in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Telangana spokesperson NV Subhash on Wednesday said that BRS MLC K Kavitha is holding the round table discussion over the women reservation bill in an attempt to divert people's attention from the alleged liquor scam.