Women Reservation Bill

This Bill has been creating pandemonium in both the Houses for record number of times since its inception in the Parliament. The Bill is been discoursed extensively and it has undergone all sorts of treatment by the Members in various sessions, but still the fate of the Bill is in cross roads. This blog appraises the comprehensiveness associated with the Bill.

There exists an inferior category in the hierarchy defined by Manu Dharma below the level of Sudhras (All OBC’s, SC and ST) is Women. According to Manu, the women are supposed to perform the duties ordered by the men and have to withstand the excesses caused by him quietly without showing any dissent. This atrocity holds good for all the women belonging to any caste. In Manu’s context, women are given the status of slaves rather then the person with self-respect.

After arduous and prolonged struggle, they are getting relieved from the achings of antifeminism practiced here. But still the male dominance prohibits the participation of women in mainstream politics, which is evident from the statistics that reveals the meager percentage of female representation in State Assembly and in both Houses of Parliament.

The poor presence eventually takes away the views of women in the important decision making process for the growth of the country. The sole purpose of the Women Reservation Bill is to enable the greater participation of women in political arena. This Bill will certainly heel the wounds caused by ill treatments so far.

It is cryptical to understand the mathematics behind the derivation of the magic number 33%. The allocation of one-third percentage instead of appropriate 50 % for half population of the country is skeptical and it is one more instance of male chauvinism.

Waiting for the consensus among the political parties is the cripple reason that stalls the implementation of the Bill. This obviously pictures the hypocrisy in the design the Bill. The draconian act like POTA had been made to existence without the worry of consensus. Why the government is looking for consensus only on this Bill?

The speculation of upper caste politics about the Bill is outrageous as they envisage the Bill to nullify the emergence of Backward and Scheduled caste leaders through their proxies. The uproar in the Northern India is due to the above said fact and it can’t be omitted without given a thought.

The jeopardy felt by the Backward and Scheduled leaders who started participating in the National politics after Mandal era is tangible. The solution for the problem is to assure the internal allocation while implementing the Bill. Without the internal reservation the Bill will not serve the sole purpose it intended for.

If the Bill is thrown to back burner in coming sessions of Parliament, women should reconsider their diplomatic approach towards the implementation. They should march to the streets to fight for their Rights.