Politics

“Mentality Of North India & Parliament Seems Not Conducive”: Sharad Pawar On Women Quota In Parliament

Sharad Pawar

Sharad Pawar said he had been raising his voice on this issue in Parliament since he was a Congress Lok Sabha member.

Pune: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar on Saturday,  said the “mentality” of north India and Parliament seems not conducive yet to giving reservation to women in the Lok Sabha and legislative assemblies.

The former Union minister made the comments at a program organized by the Pune Doctors’ Association where he and his daughter and Lok Sabha member Supriya Sule were interviewed.

Mr. Pawar was responding to a question on the Women’s Reservation Bill, which aims to reserve 33 % seats in the Lok Sabha and all state legislative assemblies for women which is yet to be passed, and whether this shows the country is still not mentally ready to accept the women leadership.

Sharad Pawar said he had been raising his voice on this issue in Parliament since he was a Congress Lok Sabha member.

“The ‘mansikta‘ (mentality) of Parliament, especially of north India, has not been conducive (on this issue). I can recall that when I was the Congress Lok Sabha member, I used to talk about the issue of reservations for women in Parliament. Once after completing my speech, I turned back and saw that majority of MPs from my party got up and left. This means even for people from my party, it was not digestible,” he said.

The NCP patriarch said all (parties) should keep trying to get the bill passed.

Mr. Pawar further said, “When I was the chief minister of Maharashtra, reservation for women was introduced in local bodies like the Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samiti. It was opposed initially but later people accepted it.”

Dear Readers,
As an independent media platform, we do not take advertisements from governments and corporate houses. It is you, our readers, who have supported us on our journey to do honest and unbiased journalism. Please contribute, so that we can continue to do the same in future.
Some error occurred

Related posts

Politics

AAP Appoints RS MP Raghav Chadha as Co Incharge For Gujarat Elections

ANI
AAP

AAP had made its debut in Gujarat in the 2017 Assembly polls, but could not open its account.
AAP’s hopes in Gujarat have been fuelled by its performance in the February 2021 Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) polls in which BJP won 93 seats, while Aam Aadmi Party bagged 27 seats and the Congress drew a blank.

New Delhi: Ahead of the upcoming Gujarat polls, Aam Aadmi Party has launched a youth face in the state and appointed Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha the co-incharge (Sah-Prabhari) for elections.
Chadha had previously played important role in enabling AAP to register its victory in Punjab and Delhi.

“I thank @ArvindKejriwal ji for entrusting me with this big responsibility. I will put in my blood, sweat, tears and toil to meet the expectations of my party. Gujarat wants change, Gujarat wants good education-healthcare. Gujarat wants Kejriwal,” the Rajya Sabha MP tweeted after the party announced his appointment.
“Congratulations and best wishes to Rajya Sabha MP and youth leader Shri @raghav_chadha
on his appointment as ‘AAP’ Gujarat co-in-charge!” AAP Gujarat tweeted in Gujarati.

AAP had made its debut in Gujarat in the 2017 Assembly polls, but could not open its account.
AAP’s hopes in Gujarat have been fuelled by its performance in the February 2021 Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) polls in which BJP won 93 seats, while Aam Aadmi Party bagged 27 seats and the Congress drew a blank.

Also Read:Mumbai Police Shares Hilarious Meme To Spread Anti-Extortion Message

Meanwhile, in the 2017 Assembly elections, Congress had given a scare to the ruling BJP by restricting its MLAs to 99 and winning 77 seats on its own. There are 182 assembly seats in Gujarat.
Notably, the party has been constantly making efforts to replace the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Gujarat.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by HW News staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

 

Related posts