Mayawati too has reservations on women’s quota bill
March 8th, 2010 - 1:01 am ICT by IANS ( 1 comment )
Lucknow, March 7 (IANS) Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Sunday expressed strong reservations against the women’s reservation bill to be introduced in Rajya Sabha Monday.
In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Mayawati said that her party would not support the bill unless it was suitably amended on the lines suggested by her, which were similar to the issues raised by Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Mayawati too regarded the bill as directed against the interests of “Dalits, minorities and backwards.”
Hours after Mulayam Singh had condemned the bill, BSP general secretary Satish Chandra Misra held a press conference to express the party’s opposition to the bill.
“The bill is not acceptable to us in the form it was tabled in the parliament”, Misra said. “What they need to do is to ensure that the proposed 33 percent reservation for women is granted over and above the existing reservation for Dalits and OBCs (other backward classes),” he said.
According to him, the BSP president has further urged the prime minister to ensure the benefit of the proposed reservation not only to women belonging to scheduled castes and OBCs alone, “but also to the ones from minority and the poor among upper castes.”
“She has made it very clear that BSP would not support the bill without the suggested changes,” Misra said.
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March 8th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
Leaders like Honb’le Maya Wati, Honb’le Mulam Singh are thinking for their own political benefit.
It is a well known fact that a lady has no caste of her own , she has to adopt the caste of her husband. If a neglected lower caste lady marries a higher caste male, she becomes the member of higher caste of her husband. If she is declared as a an entrepreneurs, she becomes an entrepreneur, if she becomes a medical practioner, she is termed as a doctor.
Reservation is being sought on gender basis and not on caste basis. It is not understood as to what the caste will do in the
reservation quota of female percentage.
All the ladies must oppose the move of Honb’le Mayawati and Honbl’e Mulayam sing. They are talking against the famele gender
On behalf of Integrated Congress of women entrepreneurs we want that the reservation bill for female society is passed by both the houses of Parliament
Dr. Mrs Sushma Joiya
National President
Integrated Congress of Women Entrepreneurs.