New Delhi : Congress MP Rahul Gandhi today praised the Women’s Reservation Bill but called it a diversion tactic from the demand of caste census. He also asked the govt. to implement this bill immediately. The Women Reservation Bill is passed from both the houses.
Addressing media persons in AICC headquarters, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said, BJP came up with the idea of the special session. We appreciated that idea, with a lot of fanfare and pomp, we moved from the old building to the new building. The Prime Minister in a very dramatic gesture carried the constitution of India from the old building, to the new building. And he said- that he is passing a very important law and we agree with him.
“Women’s Reservation is a central step in the empowerment of the women of India and it is a critical step, but when we read the fine print, we found something very interesting, two little subtexts were there, one- this will be done after delimitation and two this will be done after census, which means, this bill will be implemented a decade from now, Rahul said.
Every woman in India should understand this it is not going to be implemented ten years from now. So, this is a diversionary tactic, it’s a way of making everyone’s attention move away. It is not complicated but Govt. does not want to do it. Rahul said, OBCs, Dalits, Tribals all put together, control six percent of the budget. Tribal’s control only point one something of the budget. So, this is a shocking, my point here is , are the OBCs five percent of India, is that the amount of participation, we want of the OBC community. So, the central question is how many OBCs are there in India? How many different communities are there in India? If we want to distribute power to the people of India, we have to know this number, otherwise we are working without data. Please, tell us, how many OBCs, we have the data, I know, because the government of India has already done the census and all this data is available. Why is the Prime Minister not releasing this data? And second, what is this delay in the census? Asked Rahul. On a question that do you feel that in the present form, this bill will be able to achieve the desired goal considering that it is not being implemented now, Rahul Gandhi said, the problem is the implementation, so what they have said is we are placing a bill on the floor of the house, but we will implement it ten years from now, what does that mean? That’s like the Prime Minister saying- You know we are going to place a bill on OBC caste census on the floor of the house and we are going to do it in thirty years, what does it mean? Means nothing, so we agree with the bill, remove these two clauses and make it happen today and don’t insult the intelligence of India’s women, because India’s women knows the truth, said Rahul.
