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Lalu, Mulayam adamant on opposing Women's Reservation Bill with minority card | Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Samajwadi Party (SP) on Sunday remained adamant in opposing the Women’s Reservation Bill by playing the minority card. Both parties are opposed
to Women Reservation Bill in its present form and are demanding quota within quota
for backward and Muslim women. RJD’s Lalu Prasad Yadav and SP’s Mulayam Singh
Yadav contend that the Bill is nothing but a conspiracy by the Congress and the
BJP to eliminate the Backward Classes, Dalit’s and the Muslims. On Sunday, both
the leaders blamed Congress and BJP being hand in gloves. Describing the Bill
as a "political blunder", Mr. Lalu Yadav alleged that it was a conspiracy hatched
by both BJP and Congress parties to suppress representation of women belonging
to the OBC, ST/SC and Muslim communities. He said because the Centre lacked guts
to implement the Ranganath Mishra Commission and Sachar panel reports, hence it’s
passing of the Women's Reservation Bill. Mr. Lalu called it just a "diversionary
tactic", he told reporters in Patna before leaving for New Delhi to garner support
against the bill in its present form. “I am for 50 per cent reservation for women
belonging to all communities... But you cannot ignore the interests of women from
deprived sections of the society. "Did women like Sushma Swaraj require reservation
to reach the top? ... It only proves that the Bill is meant for the elite classes,"
Mr. Lalu Yadav said in Patna . Mr. Lalu even claimed that certain top leaders
of the BJP and Congress were in constant touch with him and were hesitating just
because their respective parties have issued whips. “All political parties should
allot seats for women. If they fail to do so, EC should de-recognize such parties.
BJP-Congress is hand-in-glove in pushing the bill. They are against Dalit’s, Muslims
and Backward Classes. We will do everything to fight this,” said Mulayam Singh
Yadav, the SP chief in a Times Now report. Meanwhile, SP Chief Whip Shailendra
Kumar, said the party will issue a whip to MPs over the measure which will be
taken up in the Rajya Sabha tomorrow. "We will have a meeting of our MPs tomorrow
morning just before parliament commences to discuss our strategy over the Bill.
Although all our MPs are following the party line of opposing the Bill, we will
also issue a whip so that nobody goes against the party stand," he said. The Women
Reservation Bill is slated for being tabled in Rajya Sabha on Monday. |
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