ओबीसी बिना महिला आरक्षण | Women's reservation minus OBC

Hello, I’m Ravish Kumar. There’s got to be a limit to peddling catchphrases. There is no reservation for OBCs or minorities in the Women's Reservation Bill. There’s an explosion of protests due to the absence of reservation for OBC women. SP, RJD, BSP, Congress have all opposed it. Not just this; even if the Women's Reservation Bill is passed, it will not be implemented right now, this is written in the bill itself! It is written that ONLY when a new census is conducted and parliamentary seats d

elimited, will women's reservation be implemented. It will be passed right now though! Women's reservation will be implemented only after the current delimitation deadline ends in 2026. Basically, this is, at best, a good joke. You would remember this is exactly how the Citizenship Act went too. The way it was passed in 2019… but has not been implemented yet… Despite being passed, this law is AWOL! Even the Modi government brimming with an overwhelming majority has not been able to provide rese

rvation to OBC women in this bill. The colourful tent put up by this government that loves an event has been uprooted despite no storms. More than being welcomed, this bill is likely to be opposed. After all, how will OBC women accept it? With this, the people were also reminded that the Modi government has not been able to complete census work in its 10 years. When this bill was to be implemented only 4–5 years later, then why was all this effect created by “quoting sources”? Only to create – d

espite two speeches – another chance at speechification? It seems that Parliament’s special session will only prove to be a special session for PM’s speechification. It seems that while a special session was called, no one knows what to do. Between September 18–19, the PM made two speeches in the Parliament. Just imagine, was there anything still left to say after yesterday that even today he went on a long speech? It seems the Parliament has been converted into PM’s classroom, even though in th

is Parliament, his record is that routine answers apart, he has appeared to give answers only TWO times. Mallikarjun Kharge said this in the Rajya Sabha. An atmosphere is being manufactured since 18 Sept; expectations are being created among women but turns out that this will not be implemented from the 2024 elections. If this is ALL that was to be done, why not do it before? We will talk about this today, but let's start with something that shows the species of women-worshipping leaders found i

n the BJP camp (the bill is called ‘Women Power Worship Bill’). Assam Chief Minister Hemanta Biswa Sarma said that he challenges Kamal Nath: if Nath is a true Hanuman devotee, then he should burn 10, Janpath. You know that 10 Janpath is Sonia Gandhi’s residence. 76–year old Sonia Gandhi is a senior MP. A sitting CM is publicly talking about burning the house of his former party president and leader. A state CM is calling for burning a woman MP’s house. All this has become so normalised. Have you

heard the PM condemn this? Someone on a constitutional post has challenged to burn a woman MP’s home. Is the test of being a “true Hanuman devotee” that Kamal Nath burns the house of his party leader? Whether women are elite or economically weak, or on the last step of the caste ladder, they all have their particular struggles in a male society; and because of poverty and caste, some have a double, even threefold struggle. When there are reports of political empowerment of women, there is also

news of their poor financial conditions, let's take a quick look at that. A Financial Express report shows that household savings in India have reached their lowest level in 50 years. In FY–22 it was 7.2 % of the GDP, it has come down to 5.1 % in FY–23. This data has been released by the Reserve Bank of India. During this period, the burden of household liabilities has risen sharply. This means that ordinary Indian households are drowning in debt. How severely this must impact women. This report

suggests that despite the media hype, the house safes are empty, and the load of the loans is so much that the State Bank is saying that ‘if the EMI is not paid, then we will send chocolates as reminders’. Just imagine, household savings had not declined this much in fifty years, there is NO news of this. There is more sentimentality and religiosity in politics because not even a drum is left to clamour for the financial ruin, rather the drum itself has burst. The state is such that if gas cyli

nder price is cut by Rs 200, it is immediately trumpeted. Now it is coming to light where people's money is going. What would women be suffering when household savings are at their 50-year lowest? Now let's come to the Women's Reservation Bill. On 18 Sept evening, State Minister Prahlad Singh Patel tweeted announcing it but the tweet was soon deleted. This long queue of women in the Parliament premises shows that the news –obtained via "sources" was correct. All these women were headed to the Pa

rliament's audience gallery so they could witness the making of history in the Women's Reservation Bill, but they probably had no idea that the history they had come to see through the bill shan't be implemented before 2026. This is also "historic", the law which will not be implemented for 3-4 years, they have been invited to clap for its mere passing! On March 9, 2010, UPA got it passed in the Rajya Sabha but it was not passed in the Lok Sabha. The reason was that while there was reservation f

or SC & ST in this bill, there was no reservation for OBCs. It was expected that PM Narendra Modi will give reservation to OBC women in his bill, but there is no mention of OBC. Congress has said not once but many times that in whatever form the government brings it, it will support it unconditionally. Will the Congress be able to support this bill; and ignore the opposition from other members of the INDIA alliance; that the bill has no reservation for OBC women? "128th Constitutional Amendment"

is written on the draft of this bill but the PM has called it Nari Shakti Vandan Bill. Do you really not find anything strange in PM's words? He said that 'this 19th Sept is going to attain immortality'. "Immortality"? Does this even make any sense? He forgot to give reservation to OBC women, and to women from any minority community, and this is "immortality"?? What's more, the PM has named this "Nari Shakti Vandan" or "women power worship" bill. The word "reservation" is itself missing from th

e bill. Can you use "Vandan" instead of "reservation"? Constitutional rights are being supplanted by a vocabulary of divine worship. BTW, there's nothing new in this bill, the same bill from 2010 has been re-introduced. There is no mention of OBC women, PM Modi might even say that God has chosen him for not including OBC women in this Act. We are in strange times. There is no way to escape anywhere. We want to remind you of Pramila Dandavate. If anyone has the first copyright on this bill, it be

longs to Pramila Dandwate because she had first brought it as a private member's bill in 1996. HD Deve Gowda was the Prime Minister then. Pramila Dandwate was a Janata Dal MP from Maharashtra and was associated with Jai Prakash Narayan's movement. Her political journey started with the Praja Socialist Party. She was in jail for 18 months during the Emergency. Having won the elections from Mumbai North Central on Janata Dal ticket in 1980, Dandavate had been a supporter of women's reservation sin

ce the beginning. After presenting the Private Member's Bill, it was decided that a parliamentary committee should go across the country and talk to different organizations and prepare a draft. Geeta Mukherjee of CPI was made the chairperson of that committee. This committee included Mamata Banerjee, Meira Kumar, Sumitra Mahajan, Nitish Kumar, Sharad Pawar, Vijay Bhaskar Reddy, Sushma Swaraj, Uma Bharti, Girija Vyas, Ram Gopal Yadav, Sushil Kumar Shinde, and Hannan Mollah. As per the committee's

draft, women's reservation was to be implemented for 15 years. A seat was to be reserved only once and there was to be rotation of seats. In this way, women's reservation would have been implemented once on all the seats in three elections. The rationale for 15 years was that in this period, women would develop their political identity and then there would be no need for it. There was a debate on this in the Lok Sabha on 16 May 1997, but a lot of opposition came from the ruling party coalition

itself. MP Sharad Yadav had said that who is a woman and who is not, reservation will not be allowed only for women with cut hair. The United Front government could not get it passed and the bill lapsed after the dissolution of the Lok Sabha. Even after being repealed repeatedly, women MPs from all parties have contributed in bringing it to this point, but their role in preparing and promoting it at the social level, Women's organizations have played an equally robust role. Road blockade, hunger

strike, train journey from Delhi to Kanyakumari, the coming together of many women's organizations was the reason why this bill remained visible to everyone despite being relegated to a dark corner. Ranjana Kumari has been associated with this issue since the beginning, from preparing drafts to participating in protests. “There is talk of passing the WRB in the special session of Parliament. "This will be the greatest justice for women of the country. "Because it has been three decades since Pr

amila Dandwate brought this bill for the first time. "An attempt was made by the parliamentary committee to gather opinions from across the country. "It is very unfortunate that when it comes to women's participation, "we forget all the rules of democracy, "whereas equality was talked about on the eve of independence." Reservation for OBC women remained the biggest obstacle in passing women's reservation. Geeta Mukherjee Committee had also said that reservation should be given to OBC women at th

e appropriate time. Nitish Kumar, Sharad Yadav, Mulayam Singh and Lalu Yadav remained adamant on the demand of giving reservation to OBC women. But in the draft by PM Modi's government, there is no mention of reservation for OBC or minority women. I was reading an interview of Pramila Dandavate with Meenakshi Nath of IndiaTogether.org. She said that in 1987, the Karnataka's Janata Government implemented 25% women reservation in Panchayats for the 1st time and in one stroke, 18000 representatives

were elected in the state. Later 33% reservation was given. After that, Rajiv Gandhi brought a proposal to give 30% reservation to women in Panchayati Raj, which was implemented by Narasimha Rao's government in 1993. The question here is: why was this bill remembered 10 years later by the Modi government? Has the wheel of women's issues in politics turned? After all, do you remember when PM Modi talked about women's reservation? In July 2014, PM Modi said in Parliament that the Women's Reservat

ion Bill would be passed ASAP. But it was remembered only 9 years later in September 2023. Even then, OBC women were completely forgotten. In 2013, PM Modi had told women entrepreneurs at the FICCI conference that he had passed a bill to implement 50% reservation in Gujarat local elections, but the Governor did not allow it to be implemented. Obviously he was referring to Congress, but there was no one to prevent him from 2014–2023, yet he has remembered women's reservation only in the last mont

hs of his second term. And even if passed, this bill cannot be implemented before 2026! In other words, it would be implemented only in 2029 elections, that too after delimitation and census! June 2014, Sushma Swaraj had said that passing the Women's Reservation Bill should be a milestone for the 16th Lok Sabha. She had said that BJP had supported Congress in Rajya Sabha 4 years ago, so Congress too should. In response, Congress President Kharge immediately extended his support. On Sept 18, whe

n rumours started floating that Modi government was bringing WRB, Congress also entered the Twitter arena with full preparation and the history of the party's initiatives on the bill started being recounted. It is worth visiting Twitter to see how diligently the Congress was reminding people about what it had done on this issue. Rajiv Gandhi's statements were being played on Twitter, Sonia Gandhi's old interview after her RS election in 2010 was also re-played. Not only this, Congress also tweet

ed letters written by Rahul & Sonia Gandhi. Sonia Gandhi wrote letters to the PM in 2018, 2019 to pass this bill, 'Congress will support it'. In July 2018, Rahul Gandhi also wrote a letter to the PM, demanding the passing of this bill and said that Congress would give unconditional support to this bill. In the Mahila Congress conference in August 2014, Sonia Gandhi said that 'due to opposition from some parties, this bill could not be passed but would keep trying even as the opposition'. Congres

s General Secretary Jairam Ramesh tweeted in detail on Sept 17 itself. In May 1989, Rajiv Gandhi introduced a Constitution Amendment Bill for 1/3rd reservation for women in Panchayats & Municipalities. It was passed in the Lok Sabha but not in the Rajya Sabha. In April 1993, during the government of PV Narasimha Rao, it was passed and made a law. Jairam Ramesh said that due to the decision of Narasimha Rao government in 1993, today more than 15 lakh women are elected in Panchayats. Last Saturday

, the Congress Working Committee in Hyderabad passed a motion demanding passage of the Women's Reservation Bill. On the 1st day of the special session of Parliament, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said in the Lok Sabha that the government should pass this bill. On Sunday, the Congress held a big rally in Telangana, where three of their six guarantees were related to women. Rs 2500 a month to every woman, free bus travel, and gas cylinder for Rs 500. In Karnataka too, Congress made the sa

me promises and implemented them. In Sept 2021, the TN government increased women reservation in govt jobs from 30% to 40%. In recent politics, the politics of reaching out to women voters is taking a different turn, perhaps this could be the reason that PM Modi has finally remembered a bill he had forgotten for 10 years. Nitish Kumar gave a new direction to women's reservation at the Panchayat level. In 2006, Nitish Kumar increased women's reservation in Bihar Panchayats from 33 to 50 %. Poli

tical parties are struggling to reach out to women voters. Different parties and leaders have their hold on the women segment. BJP leaders' opposition of the bill has its own history. While women MPs like Uma Bharti protested against OBC women, the basis of opposition for other leaders was something else. This is an April 2010 report by Vikas Pathak of Hindustan Times. It states that the public opposition to women's reservation by senior BJP MPs has become a cause of embarrassment for the party.

About Yogi Adityanath, the report stated that he had been publicly opposing the party's line for a month. On the whip issued by the party on the bill, Yogi's published statement said that we are representatives of the public, not bonded labourers. We want a debate on this among all the MPs of the party, otherwise I will resign as MP. People sitting in AC rooms of Delhi cannot decide public policy. On one hand, the party was officially supporting the bill, but Yogi was saying he would oppose the

bill, whether it included sub-quota or not. It was even said that if this bill is passed, the Indian political system will sink. Yogi had even linked women's reservation to the threat to child care. Yogi Adityanath is the Uttar Pradesh CM and obviously will not be able to oppose it now. He will be at the forefront of supporting this bill as soon as it is introduced. Further, Mohammad Zubair of Alt News has extracted the old statements of BJP's IT Chief Amit Malviya. In 2010, Amit Malviya used

to write that Sonia Gandhi "is holding the entire nation to ransom just to fulfill her agenda." Will his MPs oppose him? He said: In 2013, Malviya tweeted: A few weeks after this tweet, he wrote: We could not find any response from Amit Malviya on this. BJP's IT Cell Chief Amit Malviya's tweeted that all types of reservations should be ended. What would he do now? Tejaswi Surya has been a favourite leader & MP of the BJP. Let's recall one of his tweets: If this bill is passed, numerous MPs, espe

cially of the BJP, will be seen welcoming it under compulsion. Tejasvi Surya's tweet too has been discovered by Mohammad Zubair of Alt News. This work should be done by the lapdog media journalists but today they will only chant "Modi Modi". This is why they entered journalism. Do switch to these channels to see how much space the opposition gets in their coverage. Alt News' Zubair has posted a screenshot of an old tweet by Tejasvi Surya where Surya said that "except women's reservation in Parl

iament, Modi govt agenda is inspiring." "Dread the day when women's reservation becomes reality." This tweet has now been deleted. This is the tweet of June 10, 2014. Now that day has come, only Tejaswi Surya can tell you how dreaded he is, however, he shan't tire of praising today. Asaduddin Owaisi was also among those who opposed this bill. Then he had said that this bill is not in the interest of Muslims. If this is passed then the number of Muslim MPs will further reduce. Muslim women are ma

de to disappear from this entire debate as if they do not fall into any category. The question is will women be able to muster the courage to talk about Muslim women? PM Modi, who became the champion of Muslim women in the name of triple talaq, also forgot their stake in women's reservation. “When Kathua happened in India, when the rapists of Bilkis were released, there were a lot of women MPs and MLAs, but these MPs did not utter a word. "When Muslim women's burqas are torn off, online auctions

are held, a dirty deal is meted to Muslim women, all these women MPs remain silent. Even Women Development Minister Smriti Irani remains silent while this is her job. National Human Rights Commission, National Women's Rights Commission, all of them remain silent. In such a situation, it is important for victimised communities, whose human rights are violated... those women must be given a seat here. If you bring Mukesh Ambani's wife or Zubeen Irani's wife in Women Child Welfare, then they will

not be able to feel the pain of any Kathua victim. . First of all, whatever posts are available for women, women from Dalit, tribal, backward Muslims, backward Christians, Sikh communities should be appointed so that they can make their work and their posts meaningful. Therefore, we have to be alert that it does not happen that only women like Sadhvi Prachi, Pooja Shakun, who shoot Bapu's effigy, spill blood, proliferate in numbers. No mention of Muslim, Sikh and Christian women, nothing about

OBC women, this bill will lead to conflict in politics and may even create cracks in the INDIA alliance. Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav has tweeted that there should be a balance between gender & social justice in women's reservation. Reservation for backward, Dalit, minority and tribal women should be clarified. RJD leader Rabri Devi has said that under women's reservation, seats should be reserved for women from deprived, neglected agricultural and laboring classes. Don't forget, women

also have castes. Samajwadi Party's Rajya Sabha MP Jaya Bachchan has said that she supports the Women's Reservation Bill but "reservation should be given within the reservation". She means separate reservation for OBC and SC women. Aam Aadmi Party MP Raghav Chadha has said that they will bring women reservation but will not tell the date. The women of the country will have to wait for the new census and delimitation. We demand its immediate implementation. Prakash Ambedkar has said that OBC wom

en are not included in this, this bill is incomplete. Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh has also said that this is the biggest among the election season's platitudes . This is a betrayal against crores of Indian women & girls. Congress has already said that the Modi government has not conducted the 2021 census. India is the only country in the G20 that has not yet conducted a census. It is being said in the bill that reservation for women will be implemented only after the census and deli

mitation. Ramesh has questioned when will the census be conducted? Will it happen before 2024? This means that today's bill is for the headline only despite no specification on the timeline. PM Modi had started trying to reach out to women in the name of "Beti Bachao Beti Padhao", from 2014 itself. Although till date no one knows what this scheme is all about, all we get to read about it is that most of the money was spent on its promotion. Women were also targeted via Ujjwala Yojana, Swachh Bha

rat Yojana, Jan Dhan Yojana. Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandan Yojana was brought for pregnant women. There are many schemes like Poshan Abhiyaan & Janani Shishu Suraksha which appertain to women. Politically, a large section of women have started voting for BJP. In this vote, Congress has made a dent in Karnataka for the first time through Griha Lakshmi Yojana, under which the woman head of the family was to be given Rs 2000 per month. More than 1.25 crore women have registered in this scheme. In Ka

rnataka, free bus travel facility has also been provided for women under Shakti Scheme, right after implementation, 16 crore women traveled on it in July. In 2019, Aam Aadmi Party made bus travel free for women in Delhi. AAP's statement is that there are less than 1 crore women in Delhi but 100 crore pink tickets have been issued in 3 years. Pink ticket means free journey. The Indian Express had written in February that according to Delhi government officials, Rs 1,000 crore has been spent on th

is scheme in 3 years. In 2021, Tamil Nadu also implemented the free bus scheme. Political representation of women is expanding at the level of panchayats and civic bodies. There are some criticisms that after the Mukhiya is elected, her husband works and calls himself Mukhiya Pati. Although this should not happen, it is also a big change that such useless husbands identify themselves in the name of their elected head wife and feel proud. They would change at least a bit? In a country like India,

change will not come so easily for women, but due to reservation in Panchayats, many women have got a chance to prove their best. What is more worrying is that women's participation in industrial sectors is not increasing at a very encouraging pace. Dipanshu Mohan & Shriya Bhayana's report published in The Wire (June 2023) stated that women's participation has decreased in 9 years of Modi government. World Bank data shows that in 2012, the Female Labor Force Participation Rate was 27 %, which d

ecreased to 22.9 % in 2021. It increased slightly to 23.9% in 2022. This increase happened primarily due to the women's participation in farming. This research has been done by Ashoka University's Center for Economic Data and Analysis, CEDA. North India should think why maximum working women in the country are in Tamil Nadu? When and how did women acquire this skill there? How did women turn into a powerful work force there? If you go to Tamil Nadu, you will see a large number of women going to

work in factories. Companies also provide them bus service. A markedly different view from North India. As per the Annual Survey of Industries 2019-20, of 16 lakh working women in India, about 7 lakh or 43% were in Tamil Nadu alone. A March 2023 report says that female labor force participation in Tamil Nadu is 32%, which is almost double the rate of the country. However, the Hindu has written in its report this year that as the participation of women has increased, some problems have also been

seen. E.g., the income gap between men and women has increased. This is owing to work being unorganised & discrimination between men & women at the work place. There is only one state where participation of men and women is almost equal. That state is Manipur. In 2019-20, participation of women in the manufacturing sector in Manipur was found to be more than that of men. Imagine, what has become of that Manipur today. PM does not talk about it nor does he visit Manipur. Anyway, we discussed this

because the struggle of women's issues has not reached any milestone yet. In many sectors they get less wages than men. This pay-gap is evident even in big companies. Through this bill, reservation completes its third milestone. The basic basis of reservation has been social justice but economic and gender justice have also been added to it. In 2018, Modi government implemented reservation on economic basis, this is criticised even today by the social justice advocates who raise many serious qu

estions. Even advocates of social justice have no opposition to gender justice. Their objection is that women's reservation can only make sense in conjunction with social justice, therefore, besides Scheduled Castes and Tribes, women from backward castes should also get reservation. BUT, no one is talking about Muslim women. Goodbye, this is Ravish Kumar.