Kavitha, Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLC and daughter of Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao, broke her one-day hunger strike in an effort to introduce the Women’s Reservation Bill in the current budget session of Parliament. The dharna at Jantar Mantar was attended by opposition parties and women’s organizations who have supported the Women’s Reservation Bill from all over India.
“Women’s reservation bill is important and we need to bring it soon. I promise all the women that this protest will not stop till the bill is introduced. This bill will help in the development of the nation. I will support the BJP led central government I request him to present it.” This Bill in Parliament,” he said.
CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury, who inaugurated the protest program at Jantar Mantar here, also demanded that the Modi government should bring this bill in this session of Parliament. In his inaugural address, Yechury said, “We have come here to assure that our party will support Kavitha in this protest till the bill is passed in the Parliament. It is important to bring this bill to give equal opportunities to women in politics.”
When he first entered Parliament in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that his government’s priority would be the Women’s Reservation Bill. He said that now it has been nine years, this bill has not been introduced again in the Parliament.
After many efforts, the government gave reservation to women in panchayats. “If you can give reservation for women in Panchayats, why not in Parliament,” she said.
Kavita reached Delhi on Thursday and said that she would appear before the Enforcement Directorate on March 11. On March 8, the BRS came down heavily on the Center after the ED summoned Kavita in connection with its ongoing probe into the Delhi Excise Policy case. He said that the central investigative agencies have become an extended wing of the BJP.
Terming the summons as “politically motivated”, BRS leader Ravula Sreedhar Reddy had said that except for the ED and the BJP, no one really understands the case filed in connection with the New Delhi Excise Policy.
(with inputs from agencies)
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