After Sonia Gandhi's letter to PM Narendra Modi, govt may bring Women's Reservation Bill in Parliament
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley met Congress veterans Ghulam Nabi Azad, Ahmed Patel and Motilal Vora to discuss Women's Reservation Bill.
In Short
- Arun Jaitley meets veteran Congress leaders.
- Jaitley discusses Women's Reservation Bill with Congress leaders.
- Sonia Gandhi had written to PM Modi over the pending bill.
The Narendra Modi government is likely to bring the much delayed Women's Reservation Bill in Lok Sabha for discussion in the Winter Session of Parliament.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley met a few senior Congress leaders on Thursday evening to discuss the issue a day after Congress president Sonia Gandhi's letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking him to 'take advantage' of BJP's majority in Lok Sabha to get the bill passed. Jaitley met Congress veterans Ghulam Nabi Azad, Ahmed Patel and Motilal Vora.
"I am writing to request you to take advantage of your majority in the Lok Sabha to now get the women's reservation bill passed in the Lower House as well," Gandhi said in the letter, dated September 20.
The Rajya Sabha had passed the bill on March 9, 2010.
In her letter, Sonia Gandhi recalled that the Congress and its late leader Rajiv Gandhi had first mooted the provision for quotas for women in panchayats and municipal bodies through Constitution amendment bills.
Sonia Gandhi said the bills were "thwarted" by the opposition in 1989, but were passed by both the Houses of Parliament in 1993.
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