Hindustan Times
I have always been ambivalent about the clamour for a 33 per cent reservation for women in parliament that has been the subject of so much fire and opposition for years. It is my view that such reservations will help only the wives/mothers/daughters/sisters/aunts/nieces/daughters-in-law et al of men in power or even powerful men out of, well, power and wishing to keep it all in the family. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, June 5, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Babu Jagjivan Ram, India, Lok Sabha, Meira Kumar, Pratibha Patil, Sonia Gandhi, Speaker of the Lok Sabha
