All-party meet: Several political parties make strong pitch for women's reservation bill’s passage
PTI citing sources, some regional parties have demanded quota for backward classes and scheduled castes within the overall reservation for women. BJD leader Pinaki Misra said a new era should begin from new Parliament building and the women's reservation bill should be passed.
Chowdhury told media that the government has informed them it was a regular session of Parliament. “Only the government knows what its intention is.
It may surprise everyone with some new agenda," he said, adding that issues such as price rise, unemployment, the situation on the border with China were raised by his party in the meeting. The last concrete development on the issue was in 2010 when Rajya Sabha passed the bill amid a ruckus with marshals escorting out some MPs who opposed the move to reserve 33% seats for women in Lok Sabha and state assemblies, but the bill lapsed as it could not be passed by Lok Sabha.
Read more on livemint.com
