Are male MPs serious about Women's Reservation Bill?
Democracy and freedom to express your self do not allow indecency and disruption in the proceedings of the House. So MPs improve your conduct, the nation is watching you.
NOT MANY male MPs want to see the much hyped and talked Women’s Reservation Bill going through in the Rajya Sabha and so they have been doing whatever best they can, in order to stall the proceedings of the House, time and again. Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD) leader Lalu Prasad Yadav have been asking for a proper debate like the Left party and for accommodating members of the minority community and those who have been deprived of equal rights. They want certain amendments to be made in the Bill so that it can be acceptable to all the members of Parliament irrespective of political parties across the nation.
Sharad Yadav too wants these changes and thus despite getting a strong backing from the JDU leader and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, he was adamant in opposing the Bill in its present form. As we all know, this is a constitutional amendment, it can’t be made through without a debate which has to be made in the House, but the unruly and irresponsible behaviour of some of the MPs have been making things little difficult for the UPA government.
Adjournment of the House every hour and even calling of the Marshals to clear the well, where these expelled seven MPs again sat on a dharna inside the House, has been making the way a little difficult, though Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has expressed his confidence that the government would do all it can to pass this Bill which has also become a prestige issue for the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, who expressed her great displeasure over the proceedings of the House yesterday where she was not able to gift the Bill to Indian womenfolk on the Women’s Day and which really disappointed and hurt her a lot.
The stand of Bharatiya Janta Party is also not clear. Their MPs have been saying that they were in favour of the Bill and at the same time they have been making allegations against the government for poor floor management. The BJP leader and leader of opposition Sushma Swaraj has candidly said that her party would back the UPA government on the Bill and that she too wants to see it through as soon as possible.
The main reason for opposing the Bill is that it would finish the say of regional parties at the national level. Moreover, it will also neutralize the effects of the Mandal commission. The statement of Mulayam Singh Yadav that no Muslim candidate as an MP has ever been elected to the Parliament from nine states is nothing but sheer propaganda. If no Muslim MP has reached from these states then it is not the fault of any political party. India is a free and democratic nation where every person has a right to participate in the electoral process. So who has stopped any Muslim from becoming an MP? . Don’t we have Muslim Presidents? Those who did participate in the electoral process also got elected, so to say that the Muslims don’t reach the Parliament is quite unfair.
Whatever be the fate of Women’s Reservation Bill that only time will tell, but our MPs must learn to behave in the Parliament. Democracy and freedom to express your self does not allow indecency and disrupting the proceedings of the House, which involves huge cost to run and which ultimately has to be borne by the common man of India. So MPs improve your conduct, the nation is watching you.
Adjournment of the House every hour and even calling of the Marshals to clear the well, where these expelled seven MPs again sat on a dharna inside the House, has been making the way a little difficult, though Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has expressed his confidence that the government would do all it can to pass this Bill which has also become a prestige issue for the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, who expressed her great displeasure over the proceedings of the House yesterday where she was not able to gift the Bill to Indian womenfolk on the Women’s Day and which really disappointed and hurt her a lot.
The stand of Bharatiya Janta Party is also not clear. Their MPs have been saying that they were in favour of the Bill and at the same time they have been making allegations against the government for poor floor management. The BJP leader and leader of opposition Sushma Swaraj has candidly said that her party would back the UPA government on the Bill and that she too wants to see it through as soon as possible.
The main reason for opposing the Bill is that it would finish the say of regional parties at the national level. Moreover, it will also neutralize the effects of the Mandal commission. The statement of Mulayam Singh Yadav that no Muslim candidate as an MP has ever been elected to the Parliament from nine states is nothing but sheer propaganda. If no Muslim MP has reached from these states then it is not the fault of any political party. India is a free and democratic nation where every person has a right to participate in the electoral process. So who has stopped any Muslim from becoming an MP? . Don’t we have Muslim Presidents? Those who did participate in the electoral process also got elected, so to say that the Muslims don’t reach the Parliament is quite unfair.
Whatever be the fate of Women’s Reservation Bill that only time will tell, but our MPs must learn to behave in the Parliament. Democracy and freedom to express your self does not allow indecency and disrupting the proceedings of the House, which involves huge cost to run and which ultimately has to be borne by the common man of India. So MPs improve your conduct, the nation is watching you.
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