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Women take to the streets against delay in tabling Bill

Staff Reporter

Representatives to meet Speaker Somnath Chatterjee

NEW DELHI: Women activists took to the streets here on Friday to protest against the delay in the introduction of the Women's Reservation Bill in Parliament.

Opposing the "dilly-dallying'' tactics being adopted by some members of Parliament, the women's groups demanded that the Bill be tabled at the earliest.

"A handful of members cannot hold Parliament to ransom and not allow the Bill to be tabled,'' asserted Ranjana Kumari, president of Women Power Connect.

Take out march

Representatives of the All-India Women's Conference, the All-India Mahila Dakshata Samiti, the Joint Women's Programme, Vaastav and the Centre for Social Research among others marched from the Ranjit Singh flyover to Jantar Mantar.

Women's representatives will now meet Speaker Somnath Chatterjee and Minister of Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury to express their concern over the issue.

They alleged that some political parties, including the Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Samajwadi Party, were trying to oppose the fresh move of the Government to resurrect the Bill. The president of the Mahila Dakshata Samiti, Suman Krishnakant, and the general secretary of the National Federation of Indian Women, Annie Raja, were among those who participated in the march.

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