The woman’s reservation bill which is getting introduced now is just a politico-management sham, BJP and Congress have devised this tool for maintaining their market share and a temporary brickwalling, as other parties like RJD, BSP don’t really have too many women to field or active in their party ranks..
Both Congress and BJP had less than 10% of woman in their MP’s last year, if they were so much committed to woman emancipation, then the count of women candidates fielded should have been much higher.
Also the bill entails that some seats will be randomly selected as “ reserved for women” which means that an MP selected form one constituency this year, may not be under reservation quota from the same seat next year and hence the party will not be interested in building up a mass connect for the poor lady contesting from that seat.
On the other side, Scandinavian countries have high woman participation in governance and in these places the levels of corruption, woman liberalization and development is much higher, so may be there is some way forward in this bill.
I think these reservations must be first done at the panchayat, district, municipality & state levels first before attempting at the central level. In this manner, women will be able to build a mass appeal and have some “good stories ” to campaign by herself and will also build up party ranks. Also the issue of woman emancipation is bigger in rural areas, in urbane locations, there is financial independence and people are somewhat aware of their rights.
In essence, I think the bill should not be treated as some sort of management brick walling, instead if there is commitment to include woman in governance and build the woman’s team from grass root level, then here is an “ Aye” to the women’s bill…
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Good one, liked the way it is written and the flow of words...
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