If converted into law, this single bill has potential to change political landscape in a such big ways that it will create political chaos.
Many supporters of the bill are getting carried away by the noble concept of increasing women's representation in the parliament. That idea is great!, but "the devil is in the detail". The bill is a prescription for political chaos in the country.
The bill has a huge impact on your ability to chose who will represent you in parliament and assembly. It infringes on your right to elect representative of YOUR choice. Why should anyone limit a citizen's ability to elect Digvijay Singh, or Rahul Gandhi or any other leader of his/her choice as MP or MLA? Because that is exactly what this bill does.
On certain election, Rahul Gandhi will not be able to fight from Amethi, because that year Amethi seat would be reserved for women. And exactly same will happen to any other leader.
Now I took the extreme example of Rahul Gandhi to get my point across. He most likely will fight from some other unreserved seat and still win. But exact same thing will happen to any grass root level leaders.
They will be weaned away from their constituents for 5 years because they cannot contest election for the election cycle the seat is reserved!
And by the way, this bill won't do much good to women politicians in long run either, since they will get in front of the public for 5 years, and before they gain the ground and experience, they will be pushed off because, next election cycle that seat will no longer be reserved!
Effectively, this single bill will sabotage political grooming of upcoming leaders in the nation, effectively scuttling challenge to big time politicians by sabotaging grooming of grass root leaders and regional politicians. This most likely will promote unofficial and underground black-political arrangements likes of Lalu-Rabri and Manmohan-Sonia.
On the whole, despite having noble intents, this bill is NOT well thought of, and will be detrimental to Indian democracy. Please write to your MPs to express your opposition to the bill.
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A VERY THOUGHTLESS & ATROCIOUS MOVE BY FEW OVERENTHUSIASTICS WOMEN POLITICIANS WHICH DEFINITELY MOVE TO CHAOS IN NOT VERY DISTANT FUTURE
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I agree, this bill will be an administrative nightmare. Whole concept of local leaders will get scrapped, as no male leader will be allowed to represent same seat more than twice.
ReplyDeleteScrew the media houses... If they don't understand the language of democracy, teach them a lesson in pure Shivsena style. They are the one responsible for giving oxygen to this deamon.. calling this 'historical bill' huahh... What historical.. shame on you.. I too feel ashamed that i am born in a nation which feels pride in the concept of reservation.. look for caste, sex, race, instead of merit. You are entirely screwing the system which has scope to yield the rational people. We don't need Rabris in parliament. Congress has already done a tremendous loss to the nation. Look at President 'Pratibha Patil' who has been brought in the name of 'women empowerment' did it change killing of 'female foeticide' in Haryana at all. When we compare the ex-president 'Mr. Kalam' and Now 'Pratibha Patil' ,, I feel sorry for the nation.
ReplyDeleteWhat about the existing reserved constituencies? your arguments should be extended to those too.. in other words,no reservation in elections.
ReplyDeleteIndia is cursed with the plague of reservation. Unless it finds a cure for this plague, this country is doomed to remain an insignificant non-entity.