Monday, March 29, 2010

[ZESTCaste] 'Women's bill flouts Ambedkar's ideals'

 

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Womens-bill-flouts-Ambedkars-ideals/articleshow/5736812.cms

'Women's bill flouts Ambedkar's ideals'
TNN, Mar 29, 2010, 01.30am IST

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh CM Mayawati has called for countrywide protests
against the Women's Reservation Bill next month, saying that the
legislation was against Dalit icon Bhim Rao Ambedkar's ideology of
empowering women from all sections of society.

"Ambedkar, the chief architect of the Constitution, wanted empowerment
of women from all sections of society, but the bill wouldn't benefit
women from SC, ST, OBC, religious minorities and upper caste poor,"
said Mayawati while addressing a meeting on Saturday. She called on
her party cadres "to leave no stone unturned" for the countrywide
protests on April 14.

The party plans to hold the protests at the tehsil level and has asked
its leaders to educate people about the "flaws" in the bill, which
envisages 33% reservation for women in the legislature.

Mayawati said the BSP wasn't against the reservation, but wanted a
sub-quota for the women from the weaker sections of society.

The CM launched a frontal attack on Congress and called the party
"anti-Ambedkar". She said Congress forced Ambedkar to sign the Poona
Pact under which Dalits had to give up the demand for separate
electorate and agree to reservation of seats in the legislative
bodies. "The Hindu Code Bill drafted by Babasaheb as Union law
minister in the Jawaharlal Nehru cabinet after Independence provided
many rights to Hindu women, but he was forced to resign following
stiff opposition by Congress leaders," she said.

Mayawati said the Bharat Ratna was conferred on Ambedkar 43 years
after the Independence, when the BSP-supported National Front
government was in power.

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