“A historic legislation…”: PM Modi after Lok Sabha passes Women’s Reservation Bill
First Published: 21st September, 2023 7:30 IST
The Bill was passed following division with 454 members voting in favour of the legislation and two against it.
The ‘Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam’ is a “historic legislation” that will further boost women’s empowerment and will enable “greater participation of women in our political process,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday after the passage of the bill in Lok Sabha.
He also thanked the MPs across party lines for voting in support of the bill.
“Delighted at the passage of The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Amendment) Bill, 2023 in the Lok Sabha with such phenomenal support. I thank MPs across Party lines who voted in support of this Bill,” PM Modi said on ‘X’ (formerly Twitter).
“The Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam is a historic legislation which will further boost women’s empowerment and will enable even greater participation of women in our political process”, he added.
Earlier today, Lok Sabha passed the Women’s Reservation Bill which provides for 33 per cent reservation for women in the lower house of the Parliament and state assemblies.
The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Amendment) Bill, 2023, was passed
after a reply by Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal.
The Bill was passed following division with 454 members voting in favour of the legislation and two against it.
Speaker Om Birla announced that the Bill had been passed.
The ‘Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam’ is the first bill passed by Lok Sabha after it shifted to the new Parliament building on Tuesday.
The bill was passed by a majority of the total membership of the House and by a majority of not less than two-thirds of the members of the House “present and voting”.
The division was carried out through the distribution of slips.
Meghwal said “history” was being made with the passage of the bill.
Rejecting the opposition’s criticism about the delay in the implementation of provisions of the Bill, Meghwal said that the bill ensures transparency. The bill was passed after a day-long debate which was initiated by Congress leader Sonia
Gandhi.
Intervening in the debate, Home Minister Amit Shah also rejected the opposition’s
contention and said the bill will follow due procedure and seats which are to be
reserved will be decided by the Delimitation Commission.
Several opposition members including Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that caste
census and delimitation are not required for implementing the Women’s
Reservation Bill and it should come into force soon after it is passed by Parliament.
“There is one thing in my view that makes this bill incomplete. I would like to have
seen the OBC reservation included in this bill,” Gandhi said.”Delimitation and census
is not required, the bill should be immediately implemented,” he added.
The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Eighth Amendment) Bill, 2023 is expected to
be taken up by the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
The government introduced the new bill on Tuesday with Prime Minister Narendra
Modi announcing the government’s intention to bring ‘Nari Shakti Vandan
Adhiniyam’.
In 2008, the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government tabled the Bill in the Rajya
Sabha, and it was passed in 2010. However, the Bill was never taken up for
consideration in the Lok Sabha. (ANI)
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