Can't allow lung power to rule

What a charade this women's reservation Bill has become: Why don't we face it plain and simple — no political party is in favour of the Bill and finds it most convenient to push the blame on the others. In a numbers game, the passage of the Bill should have been ensured. The BJP, the Congress and the Left parties have the necessary numbers, then why was it stalled and then deferred? Can lung power be the criterion to decide the passage of future Bills? What prevented the Speaker of the Lok Sabha from firmly throwing out of the House the screeching brigade? Most of us matched the screeching brigade decibel to oppose Pota but it fell on deaf years.Within months the government had to set up a review committee because the dangers of misuse we had warned against were all prophetically coming true — But I digress.... Why do we need women's reservation? Because our Constitution provides for affirmative action to redress social inequalities. It should be useful to note that Mahatma Gandhi, during the freedom struggle mobilised as many women as he did men — women from all classes of society threw back their burkhas and their ghungats to march shoulder to shoulder with men in pursuit of Independence. We found instead only four per cent women made it. Fifty-five years later, we have only 8 per cent women in Parliament not because able women do not exist, but because they have actively been kept out of the pale of politics by vested interests.