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Women's bill: Government to meet parties

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NEW DELHI: In a move to bring about a consensus on the women's reservation bill and connected issues, the United Progressive Alliance Government will meet representatives of various political parties here on Friday.

Though the Government has not linked the meeting with the bill, it has sent two sets of proposals to the parties to consider increasing the number of Lok Sabha seats from the current strength of 543 following increase in the population of women, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.

The proposals include adding one-third seats or doubling the number, sources in the Left parties said.

The Left parties, at the last coordination committee meeting, opposed the move to link the bill and increasing the number of seats.

They said the Government should table the bill in its original form that provides for reservation of one-third seats for women in Parliament and Legislatures.

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