Speaking to this newspaper, senior Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Manickam Tagore said the linkage with delimitation could delay the implementation of women’s reservation, adding the BJP is planning it for 2034. Echoing the view, noted economist and former chief statistician Pronab Sen told this paper that the women’s quota will get stuck because delimitation and census have been …
Senior MP and Congress general secretary K.C. Venugopal set the tone for the debate on the Women’s Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday by demanding a caste census and separate reservation for Other Backward Classes women within the 33% quota. Mr. Venugopal said the BJP government had a poor record of ensuring safety and security for women, citing …
Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi demanded that the women reservation bill must be implemented immediately while pitching for OBC quota within reserved seats as she declared her party’s support for the bill in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. In her first speech in the new Parliament, Gandhi hailed women power in India, saying: “Women in India never thought about her …
