Thursday, March 11, 2010

33% Women's Resevation Bill

                 Inspite of the Yadav Trio's Opposition, the RajyaSabha ratified the 33% women's reservation bill. I came to know that only one MP - Sharad Joshi, a prominent farmer's leader from Maharashtra and founder of 'Shwetkari Sangathan' voted against the bill. His argument needs attention:
1. In every 5 year term the 33% seats reserved are selected by lottery and will be changed. So all the 33% incumbent women MP's and 50% of male MP's will lose the chance to contest in next term. In this way by 2024, government wants all the constituents to be represented by a woman atleast once. So basically after every 5 years 66% of MP's might be inexperienced. They need time to get adjusted and learn things and by that time 5 years will be over and they will be rotated.
2. Another argument is many male MP's whose constituency gets reserved for women in next term will simple follow Lalu Yadav's example and put their wife or daughter in the fray.
I hope that this bill will not give us inexperienced and puppet women representatives.

P.S: Why the 3 Yadav's of cow-belt are so vehemently opposing this bill?? Is it due to their personality moulded because of their caste or location??

No comments: