Women reservation benefit only possible in 2034, says Kapil Sibal, accuses Centre of luring voters with Bill
Kapil Sibal on Sunday said the earliest the women's reservation can come into effect is 2034 Lok Sabha elections, alleging it was brought with an eye on the upcoming state and Lok Sabha polls. The Rajya Sabha MP made the remarks in his new 'Dil Se' initiative under which he will engage fortnightly in a conversation with a journalist on important issues.
In the first episode he posted on social media, Sibal took questions on the women's reservation bill, the row over BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri's derogatory remarks against BSP MP Danish Ali, and his views on the new Parliament building.
Asked about Bidhuri's remarks, Sibal said the BJP MP must be «expelled» from parliament.
«I have not seen this in my 30-year-long career in parliament.
Never seen such foul language, such venom and I was even surprised and shocked by the person presiding, who said I would look at the record and then delete it. I just don't understand this,» Sibal said in an apparent reference to Congress' K Suresh who was in the chair when the incident happened in the Lok Sabha last week.
People like this should be expelled from Parliament, Sibal said, on Bidhuri.
«Imagine if a member of that (of Danish Ali's) community had done a similar thing, what would have happened and what the presiding officer would have done,» Sibal said.
«That is the kind of venom we have built in the society, that people of a particular community can say anything and get away with it,» said Sibal, who was the Union law minister between May 2013 and May 2014.
Asked about the women's reservation bill that was passed by the parliament last week, Sibal said he doubts government was genuine in wanting to pass the bill immediately.
«Had they been genuine in 2014, it would have been done,» he
