BJP wants Women’s Reservation Bill to be passed after consensus
March 8th, 2011 - 5:03 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Mar 8 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday said that it wants the Women’s Reservation Bill to be passed in the Lok Sabha after a consensus is evolved on the issue.
BJP veteran L K Advani told the party’s Parliamentary Board meeting today that the party wants the Women’s Reservation Bill to be passed in the Lok Sabha, but only after a consensus is evolved on the issue.
Deputy Leader of BJP in the Rajya Sabha SS Ahluwalia said: “He (Advani) said it should not be done with the use of marshals like it was done in the Rajya Sabha last year.”
“He also said that it should be discussed and taken up for consideration if the Election Commission can make political parties duty bound to give 33 percent reservation in seats during ticket distribution,” Ahluwalia added.
The BJP also discussed the ongoing standoff between the Congress and the DMK with regard to the seat sharing for the April 13 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections.
“The alliance talk between DMK and Congress is not merely on division of seats for the Assembly elections. This is something more serious and deals with the functioning of CBI. Instead of putting pressure on those involved in corruption in 2-G Spectrum allocation, this is about putting pressure on the CBI,” said Ahluwalia.
The BJP at its Parliamentary Board meeting also decided that it would demand discussion in the Parliament on other scams and anomalies including in NALCO, MNREGA, S-band allocation, PDS and Prasar Bharti.
The BJP leaders also voiced their concern over the Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) issue at today’s meeting.
Commenting on the issue of black money stashed in foreign banks, Ahluwalia said Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee had announced that an understanding had been reached between India and the Swiss banks on sharing details of such accounts.
“But this will come into effect prospectively from April 2011. So this announcement by the Finance Minister will serve as a warning to those who have Swiss bank accounts and they will either divert this money or withdraw it. This money will not be able to reach the country,” he added. (ANI)
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