By way of PTI
NEW DELHI: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief Ok Kavitha introduced a day-long starvation strike within the nationwide capital on Friday to press the call for for the passage of the Ladies’s Reservation Invoice.
Addressing the media, Kavitha — the daughter of Telangana Leader Minister Ok Chandrashekar Rao — mentioned the invoice has been mendacity in chilly garage since 2010 and the Modi executive has a historical alternative to get it handed in Parliament prior to 2024.
The starvation strike can be held through her NGO Bharat Jagriti, she mentioned and added all political events had been invited to enroll in it. Thus far, 18 events, together with the CPI-M and the Shiv Sena, have showed their participation.
“About 500-600 individuals will sit down on a starvation strike, however the attendance can be a lot more. Greater than 6,000 other people and 18 political events have showed their participation,” she mentioned.
CPI-M chief Sitaram Yechury will inaugurate the programme at 10 am.
The invoice, which seeks to order 33 according to cent of seats in Lok Sabha and all state legislative assemblies for girls, was once offered within the Rajya Sabha in Might 2008 and was once referred to a status committee.
In 2010, it was once handed within the Area and transmitted after all to the Lok Sabha.
Alternatively, the invoice lapsed with the fifteenth Lok Sabha.
Kavitha mentioned Top Minister Narendra Modi had promised in each the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls that his executive would convey this invoice and that it was once additionally a part of the BJP’s election manifesto.
Not one of the BJP leaders raised this factor and the Modi executive has didn’t get this invoice handed in Parliament regardless of having a majority, she mentioned, and added, “That is very saddening factor.”
The sector is progressing most effective through taking ladies on equivalent footing with males.
This sadly has now not took place in India.
“I wish to urge PM, all political leaders and particularly President Droupadi Murmu and request the Govt of India that it nonetheless has a chance as two extra Parliament periods are there (prior to the following election for passage of this invoice),” she mentioned.
The Modi executive, if it needs, can get the Ladies’s Reservation Invoice handed identical to the Aadhaar Invoice which was once handed through it as a monetary invoice and through bypassing the Rajya Sabha, she added.
Additional, Kavitha mentioned that India is in 148th position amongst 193 nations with regards to ladies’s illustration.
There are most effective 78 ladies individuals out of 543 in Parliament, which is 14.4 according to cent.
Sadly, it is extremely lower than the worldwide reasonable.
In neighbouring Pakistan, there’s a 17 according to cent reservation for girls and their illustration in Bangladesh is upper than in India, she mentioned.
NEW DELHI: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) chief Ok Kavitha introduced a day-long starvation strike within the nationwide capital on Friday to press the call for for the passage of the Ladies’s Reservation Invoice.
Addressing the media, Kavitha — the daughter of Telangana Leader Minister Ok Chandrashekar Rao — mentioned the invoice has been mendacity in chilly garage since 2010 and the Modi executive has a historical alternative to get it handed in Parliament prior to 2024.
The starvation strike can be held through her NGO Bharat Jagriti, she mentioned and added all political events had been invited to enroll in it. Thus far, 18 events, together with the CPI-M and the Shiv Sena, have showed their participation.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
“About 500-600 individuals will sit down on a starvation strike, however the attendance can be a lot more. Greater than 6,000 other people and 18 political events have showed their participation,” she mentioned.
CPI-M chief Sitaram Yechury will inaugurate the programme at 10 am.
The invoice, which seeks to order 33 according to cent of seats in Lok Sabha and all state legislative assemblies for girls, was once offered within the Rajya Sabha in Might 2008 and was once referred to a status committee.
In 2010, it was once handed within the Area and transmitted after all to the Lok Sabha.
Alternatively, the invoice lapsed with the fifteenth Lok Sabha.
Kavitha mentioned Top Minister Narendra Modi had promised in each the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls that his executive would convey this invoice and that it was once additionally a part of the BJP’s election manifesto.
Not one of the BJP leaders raised this factor and the Modi executive has didn’t get this invoice handed in Parliament regardless of having a majority, she mentioned, and added, “That is very saddening factor.”
The sector is progressing most effective through taking ladies on equivalent footing with males.
This sadly has now not took place in India.
“I wish to urge PM, all political leaders and particularly President Droupadi Murmu and request the Govt of India that it nonetheless has a chance as two extra Parliament periods are there (prior to the following election for passage of this invoice),” she mentioned.
The Modi executive, if it needs, can get the Ladies’s Reservation Invoice handed identical to the Aadhaar Invoice which was once handed through it as a monetary invoice and through bypassing the Rajya Sabha, she added.
Additional, Kavitha mentioned that India is in 148th position amongst 193 nations with regards to ladies’s illustration.
There are most effective 78 ladies individuals out of 543 in Parliament, which is 14.4 according to cent.
Sadly, it is extremely lower than the worldwide reasonable.
In neighbouring Pakistan, there’s a 17 according to cent reservation for girls and their illustration in Bangladesh is upper than in India, she mentioned.