Women Reservation Bill

So,8th was the Women International Day.It seems something happens to people on these sort of days...Women Day,Valentine's Day Rose Day etc etc..the list is endless.Everytime, lots of people come out on streets for and against the day.So this time our MPs decided to join the bandwagon.Ramu can defiinitely get one hit movie if he bases his theme on the ruckus in Parliament.One can only enjoy the scenes going on there,but yeah it gets a bit monotonous after a while.the slogans shouted in the well were nothing but hilarious.I just wonder what the poor 70-80yr old(does it matter 70 or 80?) Ansari could have done except calling marshals.


Anyways,the bill was passed somehow and was hailed as an historical event for Indian democracy.All of a sudden,every women seemed to be empowered,every MP thought he has done the lone task required to reach heaven(thinking of apsaras!!). It talked about empowering women and bringing them on par with men with 33% reservation,seats being reserved on rotation basis for 3 consecutive general elections.Lalu and Mulayam opposed it but the arguments they provided could'nt have made for more non sense.Soon they would demand quota for Buddhists,Jainists,parsis.etc..and then there are 33cr deities in Hinduism alone..Dont forget,there could be a demand for men reservation also in some time.There is always a scope to expand you pond.

For me, the bill is nothing more than a hypocrisy.It tries to potray that women can come on par only if men want them to.Does Sonia(India's most powerful person is a lady) need a  legislation to empower women? The rotation system violates the basic principles of democracy.Not only 2/3 MPs would be compulsorily unseated after every election,but also restrict the choice of voters to choose women only(Though catfight has always generated lot of interest.).This might have helped had they been Miss Indias!!But instead, we may see many more Rabri's in the fray.Also,because of compulsory unseating,there would be no incentive to nurture the constituencies and plan the development(Atleast will provide them a legal reason not to do so).We already know our attitude towards people coming through reservation.Add to it that they are women..What respect will they get??

Now you will call me anti-feminist,anti-women.No,I'm not. I oppose it with full force.We want people like Sheila Dixit in Parliament,not Dimple Yadav.Let us not forget that the people in Parliament are the same who are running the political parties. I mentioned about hypocrisy earlier. Why not these same guys,the pseudo-feminists, give 33% tickets to women mandatorily in the elections.Now here is another catch.They may give tickets to 33% women but in constituencies that are de facto losen.The solution may be to categorise units in form that 1 out of every 3 party candidate is women.The units for Lok Sabha could be state,for assembly it could be contiguous LK constituencies.Penalise them if these norms are not followed.This,I believe, will bring only serious candidates in picture and promote natural leadership based on abilities and perserverance.And voters can choose between both men and women.
There is lot more I can talk about the bill,its negative consequencies are still many,I only touched the tip of the iceberg.As someone said, if you want to work sincerely,you dont need regulations but if not, then you can find zillion loopholes in a single regulation.

I believ Indians are still better off than the West in this regard.We have a woman President,US still doesnt have one;we had a woman PM,US might never have one.The most powerful person in India is a woman.But still we Indians tend to copy models from the West everytime and everytime we never fail to pick up the failed models. The above model is based on erstwhile Soviet Union and never brought the desired results there. May be these MPs show some manhood and copy the European model of party based quotas.I am not expecting innovations.