Till such time that the 33% representation in legislatures and the Parliament is not made mandatory, they will be happy to make all the right noises on women’s representation and leave it at that. All the canvassing and grass-root work by women’s organisations would have yielded little.
Perhaps, we have been pushing the wrong end of the argument. Perhaps, the effort is better re-directed at passing legislation that puts the onus of reservation on political parties by mandating them to issue 33% of their tickets in all elections to women.
This would ensure that the elected legislature would have a substantial number of women anyway, even more than one-third of its strength that the Bill envisages.
We invite our users to read the full article published September 10 2014
Till such time that the 33% representation in legislatures and the Parliament is not made mandatory, they will be happy to make all the right noises on women’s representation and leave it at that. All the canvassing and grass-root work by women’s organisations would have yielded little.
Perhaps, we have been pushing the wrong end of the argument. Perhaps, the effort is better re-directed at passing legislation that puts the onus of reservation on political parties by mandating them to issue 33% of their tickets in all elections to women.
This would ensure that the elected legislature would have a substantial number of women anyway, even more than one-third of its strength that the Bill envisages.
We invite our users to read the full article published September 10 2014