Jaya Urges All Party to Ensure Passage of Women Bill
AIADMK supremo Jayalalitha has urged all political parties to ‘look beyond narrow divides’ and make sure that the Women’s Reservation Bill is passed without further obstructions to it, reported PTI.
“The passage… is a small, but historic step in the tumultuous journey of the Bill. Before the Bill becomes law, it has to be passed by Lok Sabha,” the former Chief Minister was quoted as saying.
She also congratulated both ruling and opposition parties for voting in favour of the bill in the Rajya Sabha, report said.
Jayalalitha noted that women, who form half of country’s population, had been sidelined and discriminated against in a patriarchal society, but said that women’s reservation bill ‘is but a small step in setting right this anomaly and ensuring gender parity’, report said.
The former chief minister highlighted that after the bill became law, the country would need women of caliber to take up responsibilities in State Legislatures and Parliament.
“AIADMK will take necessary steps towards grooming and developing women of substance for a positive political role in future,” the party leader was quoted as saying in a statement.
She said that a committee was being formed to work out the training modules for women in elocution, law, financial management and political science, report said.
