INDORE: Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan today appealed to all political parties to come together for passing in a “respectful” manner the bill for giving 33 per cent reservation to women in Parliament and State legislature.
“It should be given respectfully… There should not be the case that someone is tearing papers and someone is raising slogans against it. This should not be done.
“All parties should come together and clear the Women’s Reservation Bill in a respectful manner,” she said in a reply to a question on the Women’s Reservation Bill.
“Please do not consider women weak. They are as capable and as intelligent as men are. But it is important that they get opportunities. So for that, reservation is required for them,” Mahajan, an eight-time MP, said on sidelines of the South-Asia Speakers Summit here. (AGENCIES)
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