Home > Parliament

Parliament


  • Ally bills women’s quota as biased
    March 15 2010 | By DC Correspondent

    In voicing his opposition to the Women’s Reservation Bill, UPA ally and the NCP’s fire-brand leader Chhagan Bhujbal became the first backward leader outside Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to criticise the current legislation, in an indication that forces against the 33 per cent reservation were gaining ground.

    Post a comment
  • Evolution: She has changed everything
    March 14 2010 | By Sanjay Basak

    Tuesday, March 9, 2010. 6.30 pm. As the Congress floor managers in the Rajya Sabha panicked and dithered, party chairperson Sonia Gandhi ordered her troops to the front to give the Women’s Reservation Bill everything they had.

    1 Comments
  • Didi ko gussa kyon aata hai
    March 14 2010 | By DC Correspondent

    Mar 13: Be it women’s reservations or the petrol price hike. Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee’s POA remains unchanged — voice your unhappiness against the issue unfurl the

    Post a comment
  • ‘Bill will not be tabled in LS’
    March 14 2010 | By DC Correspondent

    Yogi Adityanath, BJP’s Gorakhpur MP, is one of the few party leaders in the BJP who publicly aired his grievances over the Women Reservation Bill (WRB). Speaking to YOJNA

    Post a comment
  • Where the parties stand… For and against
    March 14 2010 | By DC Correspondent

    March 13 : The rift between the north and the south is all too clear on the controversial Women's Reservation Bill. While OBCs in the Hindi heartland, especially Yadavs

    Post a comment
  • India lags behind in women’s empowerment
    March 12 2010 | By DC Correspondent

    March 11: India will continue to lag behind many countries including African nations in empowering women even after the passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill in both Houses of Parliament.

    Post a comment
1234567nextlast