What ails women's reservation bill?

Why are the leaders of the so called democratic parties holding a whip in their hands against any reservation for the OBC and Muslim women within the 33%? Why didn't the women protesting outside the House during the discussion on the WR Bill demand any reservation for the OBC and the Muslim women? Or even differently abled and such other category women? Why were some media barons worried about the rotation system as if it was some invention?

April Fool by Manmohan Singh

What an April Fool Sir(dar)jee!

That was my prompt reaction when on the 1st April 2010 the PM announced that the Children's Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 has come into effect. For your information the famous Tenancy Act (promising land to the tiller) was also promulgated on 1st April 1957 which has in the end left the small & marginal farmers and the tenants both landless and given birth to a modern corporate Zamindari system.

Wat en Idea Sir(dar)jee!!!

Equality in corruption

Sure, the overall scenario on the Indian political arena is dismal but there is one relief. It demolishes the media generated myth that India needs foreign educated political elites who speak English with British or American accents. They are in fact far more advanced than the Dehati leaders in corruption. No doubt democracy is a powerful egalitarian force.

Lalit Modi's Hit Wicket

Lalit Modi exposed himself.Something the media couldn't think of doing for 3 years!

birds of the same feather

Kkkkingfisher and Kkkkingfixer and Kkkkk k k r

Capital Punishment. Who comes first?

The demand for doing away with capital punishment is like an iceberg. At the base of it is a fundamental premise -- life is precious and no state can take it away as it has neither given it nor can it restore it.
This position questions several other practices, the right of the police to shoot a suspect of a serious crime who is evading arrest, firing on a rioting crowd, or on a rally of protesting citizens. Obviously then these too must be abolished as unlike the death punishment these are blatant instances of killing people without even a nominal trial. What do you say?

Can someone explain to me as to what exactly is the harm in allowing a quota for the OBC and Muslim women within the 33% quota proposed for women? Why is the leader of every so called democratic party holding a whip in her hand?

Every provision and policy of positive discrimination is aimed at bringing about an ultimate equality and hence has to be time bound. So much has been learnt from the long experience of caste based and ethnicity based (schedule tribes) reservation. How much of that has gone in shaping the women's reservation bill? As it is this country is sufficiently ill reputed known for rampant dynastism that has already degraded our democracy to oligarchy. Why can't the reservation be time bound and progressively decreasing?

Why have some media barons suddenly discovered a problem with the rotation system provided under the Bill? We all know that the rotation system is well entrenched in the local self government elections for years now. Why were objections not raised about it in the past? Was it because it affected the village women and not those who aspire to grab the seats in the parliament made available by the proposed Bill? I am not against raising an objection late. It is never late for a valid objection. It must be raised once something objectionable is discovered. But the objection against the rotation system appears to be based on something that vindicates the very objection to the Women's Reservation Bill itself namely, 'only the elite and socialite women will grab the seats'. Is the objection against the rotation system an attempt to ensure that these women do not become jobless once their constituencies are made open.

Not so surprisingly, the women protesting outside the Parliament when the Bill was being tabled in the Upper House didn't demand any reservation for the downtrodden. Despite the fact that most of them must have long ago discarded the trickle down theory in economics.

Pravin

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