Congress leader Margret Alva remembers a Congress leader saying this during a debate on reservations for women in Parliament years ago. Alva, who has been at the forefront of bringing the issue of quota for women in electoral politics centerstage, believes it is nothing but male ego that is not allowing women their due
Did the opposition stall the Women’s Reservation Bill? Was the government trying to introduce delimitation in the garb of Women’s Reservation and the opposition caught its trick? Or is it that men across party-lines do not want to share power with women?
Congress party leader Margret Alva, who is credited with playing a big role in bringing women’s reservation to the center of Indian political discourse, believes it is men’s insecurity about losing power to women that has prevented reservation for women in Parliament from becoming a law.