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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Women's Reservation Bill Fails to Get LS Nod Again

Women's Reservation Bill Fails to Get LS Nod Again

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published Published on Feb 22, 2014   modified Modified on Feb 22, 2014
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The fair sex got an unfair deal in the 15th Lok Sabha on the issue of reservation in legislatures despite the three top posts being occupied by women.

The ambitious Women's Reservation Bill, which provides for 33 per cent reservation for women in the lower house of Parliament and state assemblies for 15 years, failed to get the nod this time too though Sonia Gandhi was the UPA Chairperson, Meira Kumar was the Speaker and Sushma Swaraj was the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha.

The bill, which has been pending in the Lok Sabha since 2010, was listed in the last session of the Lok Sabha which concluded today.

Once the Lok Sabha is dissolved in the coming days, the Constitution (108th Amendment) Bill, popularly known as the Women's Reservation Bill, will lapse.

As per law, any bill pending in Lok Sabha lapses with the dissolution of the House. Bills pending in Rajya Sabha are put in the 'live register' and remain pending.

The 18-year journey of the Women's Reservation Bill was marked by high drama and hit roadblocks in each of its outings in Parliament before the historic measure cleared the first legislative hurdle in March 2010 when the Rajya Sabha passed it amid high drama as marshals were used.

The battle for greater representation to women in Lok Sabha and state assemblies was routinely punctuated by frayed tempers and war of words which sometimes got physical, as different governments since 1996 tried to get the Women's Reservation Bill passed in Parliament without success.

The Bill also lapsed each time the House was dissolved and was re-introduced by the government of the day.

The path-breaking Bill greenlighted by the Rajya Sabha to create legislative history was first introduced in the Lok Sabha by the Deve Gowda government on September 12, 1996.

Snatching of papers from presiding officers and ministers and scuffles became a familiar scene each time the Bill made its way to Parliament before it was aborted.

Once, Union minister Renuka Chowdhury pushed a Samajwadi member away when he tried to snatch a copy of the Bill from her Ministerial colleague H R Bhardwaj in the UPA government's first term when it was being introduced.

The opposition to the Constitution Amendment Bill hit a nadir on March 9, 2010 when some opposition members tried to attack Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari and disrupted tabling of the Bill.

After the Bill introduced by the Deve Gowda government on September 12, 1996 failed to get approval in Lok Sabha, it was referred to a Joint Parliamentary Committee chaired by Geeta Mukherjee, which presented its report to the Lok Sabha on December 9, 1996.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee's NDA government re-introduced the bill in the 12th Lok Sabha in 1998.

When Law minister M Thambidurai rose to introduce the bill on July 13, 1998, RJD MP Surendra Prasad Yadav went to the well of the House, snatched it from Speaker GM C Balayogi and tore it to bits.

The NDA government re-introduced the bill in the 13th Lok Sabha in 1999.

It moved the Bill again amid pandemonium in 2002 and Left parties and Congress gave assurances to support the bill if it is taken up.

In 2008, the government tabled the bill in the Rajya Sabha so that the legislation does not lapse.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Justice, and Personnel recommended passage of the Bill in December, 2009.


Outlook, 21 February, 2014, http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=829938


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