Women Reservation Bill

  • Activists of Communist Party of India (Marxist) hold placards during a protest as they demand for Women Reservation Bill in the monsoon session of the Parliament, at Jantar Mantar ...

    PTI Photo

  • NCP MP Supriya Sule, DMK Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi, CPI(M) leader D Raja and others during a protest for Women's Reservation Bill at Jantar Mantar, in New Delhi.

    PTI Photo

  • NCP MP Supriya Sule and DMK Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi during a protest for Women's Reservation Bill at Jantar Mantar, in New Delhi.

    PTI Photo

  • Prominent Woman Activist Ranjana Kumari participate in a protest demanding the passing of the Women's Reservation Bill in New Delhi.

    Photo by Sanjay Rawat

  • Women activists participate in a protest demanding the passing of the Women's Reservation Bill in New Delhi.

    Photo by Sanjay Rawat

  • Naga women hold placards during a protest rally in support of Women's Reservation Bill in Dimapur, Nagaland.

    PTI Photo

  • Women protest near the Parliament in support of the women’s reservation bill, a bill that would reserve one-third of the legislature's seats for women, in New Delhi.

    AP Photo/ Saurabh Das

  • Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar with Pawan Kumar Bansal, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Ajit Singh, Lalu Prasad, Praful Patel and other political leaders during an all party meet over Women’...

    PTI Photo/ Shahbaz Khan

  • Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar being greeted by Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj during an all-party meeting on Women's Reservation Bill, in New Delhi.

    PTI Photo/ Manvender Vashist

  • United Stand The Left initiative on 33% reservation for women saw women of all ideological hues make common cause

    AP

  • A woman holds a placard demanding 33-percent reservation for women as policemen stand guard during a rally to mark International Women's Day in New Delhi. International Women's Day...

    AP Photo/Manish Swarup

  • BSP President and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati making an aerial survey of party's dharna against the Women Reservation Bill in its present form in different parts of the s...

    PTI Photo/Nand Kumar

  • Sandeep Adhwaryu

  • Finance Minister and Leader of the Lok Sabha Pranab Mukherjee, Home Minister P. Chidambaram and Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj with RJD Chief leader Lalu Prasad Yadav along wit...

    PTI Photo/Shahbaz Khan

  • Union Railway Minister Mamata Bernarjee interacts with RJD Chief leader Lalu Prasad Yadav after attending an all-party meeting in the Parliament to discuss the Women's Reservation ...

    PTI Photo/Shahbaz Khan

  • Sandeep Adhwaryu

  • Lyricist Javed Akhtar holds a placard during a dharna by secular Muslim citizens to support Women's Reservation Bill in New Delhi.

    PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist

  • “Don’t speak for us women... and don’t divide us. Let us speak for ourselves.”
    Mohsina Kidwai, RS MP, Congress

    Jitender Gupta

  • “The bill, in its present form, won’t help. I’m from a backward caste...but not all women are.”
    Tabassum Hasan, BSP MP, Kairana

    Nirala Tripathi

  • “What have these men who oppose it done for women in their own parties?”
    Najma Heptullah, Rajya Sabha MP, BJP

    Narendra Bisht
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  • A Gift For Mr Obama
    How the build-up to a visit by the American President, possibly in December, affects legislation in India
    May 10, 2010
    | Saba Naqvi
  • Chennai Corner
    During the passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha, both the DMK and AIADMK were on the same page. A miracle when you consider that if Karunanidhi says black, Jayalalitha says white.
    Mar 11, 2010
    | Pushpa Iyengar
  • Plus ça Change...
    This open letter to Sharad Yadav was published on June 16, 1997. It remains as relevant today in pointing out how the Yadavs' opposition in the name of caste is a mere bogey. There are far more serious issues at stake.
    Mar 10, 2010
    | Madhu Purnima Kishwar
  • Demeaning Women’s Empowerment
    The Women’s Reservation Bill, in its present form, has serious, indeed fatal, flaws. If enacted, this measure will send our already tottering political system into a devastating tailspin.
    Mar 10, 2010
    | Madhu Purnima Kishwar
  • Ladies' Coupé
    Congress Party has proposed to increase the number of seats in the Lok Sabha to 900. Why not make it 1200? To take matters to their logical conclusion, why don't we propose two separate legislative chambers — one for men, another for women?
    Aug 29, 2005
    | Madhu Purnima Kishwar
  • Alternative As Dilution
    To introduce reservation for women in party lists within the present system is a kind of tokenism that Indian women do not need.
    May 17, 2003
    | Brinda Karat
  • Quota Options
    The option of a quota for women in the candidate list of parties is not a `dilution' of the Women's Reservation Bill but a better way of realising the objectives.
    May 16, 2003
    | Yogendra Yadav
  • The Alternative Bill
    Enhancing Women's Representation In Legislatures - An Alternative to the Government Bill for Women's Reservation
    May 15, 2003
    | Jayaprakash Narayan Madhu Purnima Kishwar Yogendra Yadav Forum for Democratic Reforms Dhirubhai Sheth
  • The Alternative Advantages
    This proposal had received enthusiastic endorsement by the Election Commission way back in January 2000 and it can go through if the two big national parties, the BJP and the Congress, make common cause for this one purpose.
    May 15, 2003
    | Madhu Purnima Kishwar
  • An Open Appeal To Mulayambhai
    We are saddened to hear reports that the compromise formula you are proposing on the Alternative Women's Reservation Bill involves bringing down the women's quota in ticket allocation to about 15 to 20 per cent.
    May 15, 2003
    | Madhu Purnima Kishwar
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