00:01Now the amendment is to de-link it from the whole census process and base it on 2011 census.
00:09Second amendment is to increase the seats in the parliament.
00:12We welcome it because it has been very, very long struggle of women and women organizations of India to get
00:19this justice.
00:20And when it is going to be delivered and when the promise is coming, we should all welcome it.
00:26So that is why we have come together here as women's groups to appeal to all political parties to come
00:33together and stop any form of gatekeeping, political gatekeeping to stop women.
00:39Please agree and pass all these amendments which have been proposed.
00:43You have openly come in support of the bill and you have already mentioned, you have asked the political parties
00:49also not to block it.
00:50But what the opposition parties they have been raising since last 2-3 days is that it is not about
00:56women's reservation, it is a delimitation issue.
00:59How do you see that?
01:00Well, it is all about women's reservation that I am talking about.
01:03Delimitation is a political issue.
01:06There is a question of justice to the South India.
01:09I think we do need to discuss it politically and keep it separate so that it doesn't confuse the representation
01:16question for women.
01:17Let delimitation be discussed by political parties and be resolved.
01:22But don't block women's access to parliament, getting more women in the parliament in the name of delimitation.
01:29Please don't do it because enough has been done to block it.
01:32Sometimes the caste will be raised, sometimes the whole question of where these seats will come from.
01:39Many male members thought that my seat will go away.
01:41So now the solutions have been found.
01:43So we should agree, all political parties must agree.
01:47Delimitation, you discuss it.
01:49But don't block women's representation.
01:53One thing that has been raised again is that regarding what the census is already underway.
01:57So taking base of 2011 census, many of them have been raising this issue that why 2011 census?
02:06Because the 2026 census is almost underway.
02:10So it should have been done after this census would have been completed.
02:14Well, I agree that census is in process, but census takes a lot of time.
02:19As an academician, I also know that it is going to take a lot of time.
02:23By the time the 2029 election will be also over.
02:27That means another five more years of wait for women.
02:30I don't think that's the kind of justice that we are looking at.
02:34And also the 2011 census is based for every activity in the country, whether it is economic planning,
02:41whether it is making any kind of budget allocations.
02:45Everybody is using 2011 as a base because we have no other data.
02:50So I think when it comes to women's reservation bill, then you start digging every issue possible to block it.
02:57Political parties should agree this time.
03:00And especially my appeal to the opposition party leader that please come forward.
03:06It is your party which passed it in Rajasabha.
03:08It is your party which constituted the committee which went around the country and got the bill in place.
03:13So please support it, pass it.
03:16When 1993 Rajiv Gandhi had passed the Panchayati Raj bill, look at the difference today.
03:22Look at that women are not only 50%, they are 56%.
03:26Women are 14.6% elected, lacked elected representatives in the country.
03:32What a big change it has brought.
03:34So why to block it?
03:36Why to bring in any other issue to ensure that this bill is not passed?
03:41And also as far as the immediate...
03:43See, it will be an advantage BJP.
03:44There is no doubt about it if all the political parties behave the way they are behaving.
03:49It will be.
03:50Because women are watching.
03:52Why are the other political parties not supporting it which really initiated the whole process?
03:56You know, we should be able to get the all political parties support.
04:02They must come consciously to the parliament and ensure that justice is delivered to women of India.
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