The Union Cabinet on Monday cleared the Women Reservation Bill in a key gathering led by Head of the state Narendra Modi, declared Association serve Prahlad Patel. The move by the Cabinet caused a lot of buzz, but the government didn’t give the usual press briefing after the Cabinet meeting.
Union Cabinet Meeting
The Union Cabinet met after the primary sitting of the five-day extraordinary meeting of Parliament. The Bureau meeting lasted for more than 100 minutes.
Cutting across political lines, pioneers have requested the presentation of the ladies’ booking bill, which ensures a 33 percent standard in Lok Sabha and state congregations.
What is the women’s reservation bill?
- The bill says that the reservation of seats for women shall cease to exist 15 years after the commencement of the amendment act.
- According to the bill, one-third of the seats reserved for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes will be reserved for women from those groups.
- The women’s reservation bill seeks to reserve 33 percent of seats in the Lok Sabha and state legislative assemblies for women.
- These reserved seats may be allotted by rotation to different state or union territory constituencies.
Congress Reacted On The Reservation Bill
Responding to the turn of events, senior Congress pioneer Jairam Ramesh composed on X, “It’s been a well-established request of the Congress party to carry out ladies’ booking. We invite the announced choice of the Association Bureau and anticipate the subtleties of the Bill. This might have very much been examined in the all-party meeting before the Unique Meeting, and agreement might have been worked as opposed to working under a subtle pretense.”
Meeting Attended By These All
The bureau meeting was attended by Association pastors including Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Piyush Goyal, Pralhad Joshi, S Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharaman, Dharmendra Pradhan, Nitin Gadkari, and Arjun Smash Meghwal.
There has been speculation about a number of bills, including the women’s reservation bill, ever since it was announced that the Parliament session would take place from September 18 to 22.