he historic Women's Reservation Bill -- Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam -- to provide 33 per cent quota in Lok Sabha and state assemblies has been passed in Lok Sabha.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked all MPs across party lines who voted in support of the Women's Reservation Bill.
Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin said the delimitation is like a Sword of Damocles hanging over the head of Tamil Nadu and south India.
The historic Women's Reservation Bill to provide 33 per cent quota in Lok Sabha and State assemblies has been passed in Lok Sabha.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that the passage of women's reservation bill will mark start of new era, PM Modi presented vision of women-led progress in G20.
The leader said Muslim women who are seven per cent of the population, have only 0.7 per cent representation in Lok Sabha.
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Questions have been raised about the probability of this law unlikely to be implemented by next year’s Lok Sabha elections because reservation of seats can be implemented only after publication of census, followed by a delimitation exercise.
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Hitting back at the Congress who has been claiming the credit for the Bill, Irani said, "When this bill was brought, some people said that it is "our bill"
The BSP chief alleged that a provision in the Bill that was introduced in the Parliament on September 19 will enable a delay in its implementation by 15 to 16 years.
President Droupadi Murmu's remarks came when parliamentarians were holding an extensive discussion on the Women's Reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha.
The leader, however, reiterated that it was Congress' brain child which was former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's dream.
The words - socialist and secular - which according to the Congress leader, were missing in the preamble of the new copies of the Constitution, were added in 1976.
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BRS leader K Kavitha held a one-day hunger strike at Jantar Manta, New Delhi in March this year demanding passage of the Women's Reservation Bill.
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