INDIA
Women Shakti: 113 MPs, cutting across 23 parties & 21 states, pledge support
As many as 113 MPs, cutting across 23 parties and 21 states, have pledged their support to the Women's Reservation Bill, as part of a Call-Your-MP campaign initiated by a Bengaluru-based collective called Political Shakti.
The collective, which aims to build a non-partisan caucus of women to ensure more women are given tickets in elections across party lines, ideologies and positions, came up with a campaign during which volunteers, as well as voters, could call their MPs asking them to support the Women's Reservation Bill.
Over 500 callers including farmers, women in corporations, rape survivors, students, women in IT, rehabilitated manual scavengers, women in media, bankers, trainers, researchers, civil society activists, domestic workers, advertising professionals, entrepreneurs etc. participated in the campaign. Within 2.5 hours of the campaign, volunteers called 373 LS MPs, of which 128 MPs answered. 126 of the 128 MPs said they support the Bill and will try to raise it in Parliament.
Members of the collective said that more numbers are still flowing in and some MPs said that while they support it, it is up to their parties to decide to table the Bill. 258 MPs did not pick up the phone or were not reachable.
Tara Krishnaswamy, the co-founder of Shakti said that with time running out Shakti will continue to ramp up this campaign until women get their political due. "We hope that the 126 MPs will discuss with each other and aggregate the demand in the House. Many non-BJP MPs including from state parties mentioned that they have been raising the Women's Reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha, including on December 27 but that they were not permitted by the House. What is stopping the ruling party from passing the Bill when the most complicated Aadhaar, GST & controversial Instant Triple Talaq have been passed," she said.
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