The Women Quota Bill, which offers for 33 % reservation for girls within the Lok Sabha in addition to the state legislative assemblies, cleared its closing legislative hurdle on the Rajya Sabha on Thursday with 214 members voting in assist and none against.
Days after his social gathering voted against the ladies’s reservation invoice within the Lok Sabha, All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday stated that the ‘two’ votes opposing the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam “shocked the Parliament.”
While addressing a public gathering in his parliamentary constituency, Hyderabad, the AIMIM MP stated, “BJP leaders kept saying that two of our MPs voted against women’s reservation bill. But, we shocked the parliament.”
“A total of 450 MPs voted for and only 2 voted against the bill. Speaker Sahab said Owaisi Sahab, no one is with you, I replied, Allah is with me,” Owaisi stated. The AIMIM chief stated that he confirmed the whole nation that the BJP and Congress are collectively and that he’s the one one preventing against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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“When everyone said 450 MPs were against me, I told the entire country that Congress and BJP are together, and Samajwadi (Party) and Congress are also together. I am fighting against PM Modi alone and you are all together,” he added. ‘
The Women Quota Bill, which offers for 33 % reservation for girls within the Lok Sabha in addition to the state legislative assemblies, cleared its closing legislative hurdle on the Rajya Sabha on Thursday with 214 members voting in assist and none against.
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The Bill bought the nod of the Lok Sabha because it was handed with a brute majority of 454 votes in favour and simply 2, Owaisi his social gathering colleague Imtiaz Jaleel, voted against it. The AIMIM MP defended his opposition to the draft laws saying that it doesn’t present for a sub-quota for Muslim and Other Backward Classes (OBC) ladies.
Even as some Opposition members flagged considerations over the delay in implementation of the Bill, the Centre maintained that it might carried out after due course of.
The Rajya Sabha had earlier handed the Women’s Reservation Bill in 2010 throughout the Congress-led UPA authorities but it surely was not taken up within the Lok Sabha and subsequently lapsed within the Lower House.
