First agenda of new Parliament: Govt tables Nari Shakti Bill for 33% political reservation to women
First agenda of new Parliament: Govt tables Nari Shakti Bill for 33% political reservation to women
New Delhi: Twenty-seven years after it was first tabled, the women’s reservation bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday as the very first agenda of the New Parliament after Prime Minister Narendra Modi led MPs to the new House following a farewell to the old in an hour- long event at the central hall of old Parliament on Tuesday morning.
“God has chosen me for pure deeds. Today we will write history…Let’s open the doors for Nari Shakti,” the prime minister said announcing the government’s decision to introduce Nari Shakti Vandan Bill for 33 per cent reservation for women in Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and state assemblies.
The prime minister called upon the House for consensus on the Constitution 128th amendment Bill moments before Congress MPs sought to storm the well on the very first day of the new house protesting the absence of hard copy of the bill after law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal introduced it.
“Please find the bill in the revised list of business. It has also been uploaded on the tabs before you,” Meghwal told the protesting opposition MPs even as the Congress leader in his first remarks in the new House said the bill passed during the UPA time in 2010 was alive, a remark the Union Home Minister contested on record asking Adhir to either authenticate or withdraw his comment.
“The previous bill was passed by Rajya Sabha on March 9, 2010. The Rajya Sabha reported it to Lok Sabha and the bill became property of the Lok Sabha. It eventually lapsed with the dissolution of the 15th Lok Sabha on May 18, 2014,” the home minister said challenging Adhir to prove his remarks.
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