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UPA blamed on women's quota Bill

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BJP would have got the reservation Bill passed, claim party leaders

JAIPUR: The Bharatiya Janata Party's national women's convention, titled "matrushakti sammelan" here on Saturday harped on the pending Women's Reservation Bill and blamed the ruling United Progressive Alliance Government at the Centre for the delay in its passage.

The women in the country continued to be second-class citizens and the BJP would support the Bill in Parliament when it is introduced, the speakers at the convention maintained.

The one-day convention listed the failures of the UPA Government in a political resolution but the speeches were mostly targeted at the Congress president Sonia Gandhi and on the Women's Reservation Bill.

However, BJP president L.K.Advani who addressed the gathering kept political themes out of his speech and confined himself to the role of women in familial/social life.

"Those who opposed the Bill when it was introduced in Parliament in the past are in UPA now,'' former BJP president Venkaiah Naidu said in his address.

"There should be reservation for women. The party will support it in Parliament,'' he said. "In 18 months in power the UPA could not do anything about the Bill,'' he noted.

"The UPA Government has cheated women by not passing the Reservation Bill. Had it been with the BJP-led Government at the Centre, women would have got 33 per cent reservation in the Lok Sabha and the Assemblies by now,'' senior party leader Sushma Swaraj asserted.

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