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Upper house of Indian parliament passes the anti-men female's reservation bill

Submitted by arindamp on Tue, 2010-03-09 22:50.

Story here. The upper house of the Indian parliament passed the anti-men female's reservation bill without hearing to the voice of the men. A highly shameful and sexist bill indeed. Excerpt:

'NEW DELHI: After a day of high drama that saw the Rajya Sabha swarm with more than a hundred marshals in blue dresses called in to bundle out seven MPs blocking proceedings, the House recorded a historic vote in favour of a bill providing for 33% reservation for women in Parliament and assemblies.

The legislation is likely to be brought to the Lok Sabha after the vote-on-account has been passed, with the Congress leadership showing that it was not deterred by the bigger strength of the quota opponents in the lower House. It has to be brought to the LS as a logical corollary, said Sonia Gan-dhi although she refused to get into the specifics of the likely time-table.

The vote had been vehemently stalled by anti-women's quota protesters in the RS throughout Monday while the government calculated the political fallout of all-out hostilities with SP and RJD leaders Mulayam Singh and Lalu Prasad. While the government dithered, a handful of dissenters held the House to ransom.'