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The Constitution Amendment Bill to implement 33 per cent reservation for women failed to pass in the Lok Sabha after the government failed to secure the required two-thirds majority, receiving 298 votes in favour and 230 against.
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00:00Good evening, hello and welcome. You're with the news today, your primetime destination news, newsmakers, talking points.
00:08The big talking point today, women's quota amendment bill. Amendment bill has failed.
00:15And the big question, who has won the day, the Modi government or the opposition?
00:21Abhishek Manu Singh, we're among my special guests tonight.
00:24We'll have those who'll also tell us what lies ahead for women's reservation.
00:35The big breaking story at the moment, the women's quota amendment bill, amendment bill, the Nari Shakti Vandan bill, as
00:42it's called, has failed the Lok Sabha test.
00:46The government failed to get a two-thirds majority required to amend what was already a constitutional amendment that had
00:52been put in place in 2023.
00:54Two-98 votes in support, two-30 against.
00:58The BJP says it will go on a nationwide protest against the bill's defeat.
01:02From tomorrow onwards, multiple protests to be organized across the country.
01:06NDA partners will also take part in the protest.
01:10Meanwhile, the government has withdrawn the subsequent delimitation and union territory bills.
01:15The Modi government claims the opposition stands exposed on women's quota.
01:19The opposition, in turn, has demanded that the government implement the quota on the existing 543 seats, one-third reservation.
01:28The opposition says they had already passed the 2023 Women's Reservation Constitution Amendment Bill.
01:35There was no need, therefore, to bring in a fresh amendment.
01:40Let's listen in to some of the reactions we are getting on this big day.
01:45Let's listen in to some of the issues we are getting on this big day.
02:13Let's listen in this big day.
02:19Let's listen in the next big day.
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02:52And I'm saying, from the Prime Minister, if you want to go to Mahilabil, take the Mahilabil implementation from today,
03:03and the whole opposition will be 100% of you, and we will immediately implement the Mahilabil.
03:14Okay, two sides of the story.
03:16Aishwarya Paliwal Moshmi Singh, who spent all day in Parliament tracking that big story.
03:21Appreciate both of you joining us.
03:23First to you, Aishwarya.
03:25The government says that there are women MPs who we are seeing outside Parliament also raising slogans.
03:33Is the BJP going to now make this a pan-India issue, claiming that women's reservation was blocked?
03:39Because the fact is, there was already an amended, there was already the Nari Shakti Vandana bill, which was passed
03:46and notified last night.
03:49Correct. You know, Rajdeep, there are two questions that you have asked.
03:52I'll answer the first one.
03:53You know, just let it be tomorrow morning.
03:55Just let the night pass, and you will see how across the country the pan-India protest that you were
03:59speaking about is something that will become a reality,
04:02because that is the kind of background things that the Bharki Janta Party has done.
04:07In fact, you know, you just look at the timing.
04:09The moment everyone stepped out, as soon as the eyes actually won, and we did see how the bill was
04:15being demolished,
04:16most of the women MPs of the Bharki Janta Party, they had plaque cards in hand,
04:19which means that this was something that the BJP, the ruling NDA party, was in fact preparing itself for.
04:24So that's the kind of preparation that we have seen right here in the parliament, and you multiply it many
04:29forms,
04:29you will see that kind of preparation across the streets, across the cities.
04:33The BJP will now take it to the ground, especially in two states, the state of Tamil Nadu and in
04:37the state of West Bengal,
04:38and you will see the BJP saying that it's the opposition that now stands exposed.
04:42And yes, the opposition also has been saying that we did all together come together to make sure that there
04:47is 33% reservation for women in 543.
04:50That is something we should need to do now.
04:53Let me get to Moshmi on what the opposition plans to do.
04:56You heard from Aishwarya, the BJP plans pan-India protests.
04:59What is the opposition, how is the opposition going to respond to this?
05:02I am going to ask my producer to put some of those sounds down, but go ahead, Moshmi.
05:08Rajdeep, it's very interesting.
05:09You know, the women MPs, two pictures that spoke about the entire story that unfolded.
05:15Women MPs of the BJP had banners already printed in their hands,
05:20and that was just seconds or minutes after the bill failed the test.
05:25That means BJP knew that the bill is never going to pass.
05:29And secondly, the opposition leaders, many told me that we are going to cross the 220 figure mark.
05:35And they managed to cross 230.
05:37That means that it was beyond the expectations, the support that they really got.
05:42And thereafter, Rahul Gandhi has spoken to Abhishek Banerjee, and Akhilesh Nadav, of course, has spoken to Mamta, and Karge
05:50has thanked Derrick O'Brien.
05:52So look what the government has done.
05:54There was a lot of ICE, you know, relations had been strained between the TMC and the Congress.
06:00Rahul Gandhi had gone and slammed TMC, and here you are with a quick turn of political events.
06:08I think that the opposition is going to also drumbeat about the fact that how the government wanted to undermine
06:16the constitution,
06:17keeping the women's reservation bill in the foreground.
06:21Okay, the opposition claiming that the government has weaponized the women's reservation,
06:26the government saying that the opposition has failed the women of the country.
06:31So clearly the narrative, in a way, has been set.
06:35Let me go straight to my first guest joining me on the show tonight.
06:44Okay, so the big question, of course, the women's reservation amendment bill has been defeated.
06:51What does this really mean for the political climate in the country?
06:58Joining me now is senior opposition Congress MP Rajya Sabha and jurist Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi.
07:06Appreciate you joining us.
07:08I want to understand from you the women's amendment bill, the Nari Shakti Wanda bill defeated
07:13because it didn't meet the two thirds criteria in the Lok Sabha.
07:17But the BJP is claiming that there is victory in defeat, that they made a full attempt to ensure women's
07:24reservation
07:25and you in the opposition blocked it.
07:27That's the narrative they are running.
07:31Rajdeep, I'll be very pointed, but there are six or seven facets you need to see and your viewers need
07:36to understand.
07:36And let me start by saying, Ghalib Ke Kuch Khaal Achhe Hote Hai, so let them exult in what they
07:43say is a victory.
07:45Actually, they've been exposed to be a wolf in sheep's clothing.
07:51The sheep's clothing was the women's reservation phrase.
07:55The wolf was the object of delimitation in a distorted and a completely ridiculous manner.
08:01Now, let me give you those six, seven points very quickly.
08:03Of course, first is very interesting, which most people have not noticed.
08:08This is possibly the first time in the history of Indian parliament that a government, consciously with a full majority
08:14in 2023,
08:16gets a constitutional amendment with 100% support of everyone including the opposition.
08:21Does nothing for three years and then withdraws its own constitutional amendment by moving a second constitutional amendment in 2026.
08:31I don't think it's ever happened before. This shows the ad hocism.
08:35The second example of ad hocism is processful, which you must know before I come to the substantive, which is
08:40very serious.
08:41There are five or six major processful issues which show that this government is functioning like a sultan's, you know,
08:47whim and caprice, ad hocism.
08:5114th of April, two days ago, or three days ago, we get the copies of this bill.
08:57Not a single all-party meeting is attempted.
09:00No standing committee, no JPC, no select committee, no nothing.
09:05A third bill, the UT bill, which you saw being defeated, is just added on 16th, maybe 15th evening.
09:14And most interesting, which people have missed out, yesterday at 10 o'clock, they notified the 2023 amendment, which they
09:22had passed,
09:22but which was not notified till now. Because somebody realized the goof up that without activating the 23 amendment, making
09:30it law, there was nothing they could amend today.
09:32So this shows that the whole thing is one big mess. It's a sultan's caprice and whim.
09:38Now let us come to the three or four substantive issues. If you want 2011 census, which is what your
09:45proclaimed status stand is,
09:48I am with you, we can pass this in one week from today again. You talk of women's reservation, let
09:54me tell you, Nari Shakti can be operationalized in one week.
09:58Take the 2011 census, apply it to 543, and implement it.
10:05No, you're actually giving what is the formula I gave last night on TV, 543 members.
10:11No, but what stops you? What stops you?
10:12No, what stops you?
10:13What stopped you for three years?
10:14No, no, they will argue what stopped you for 10 years when you were in power from 2004 to 2014.
10:19You passed it in the Rajasaba, you couldn't pass it in the Lokasaba.
10:22One minute, one minute, one minute. We could not pass it because large sections of the present government opposed it.
10:29They opposed it on the ground of an updated census.
10:32But now that argument is spurious because everybody supported the 23 amendment.
10:37For three years, apart from not notifying it, you did nothing.
10:42And today, the only fear is that you will lose seats, one-third to women.
10:47Well, the Congress Party and the India Alliance is fully prepared to lose one-third seats to women.
10:53Why don't you...
10:53No, no, no, hold on.
10:55Are all the India Alliance allies prepared that out of 543, 181 will be reserved for women?
11:00They have to...
11:02Are only the Congress prepared?
11:05The answer is yes, because that is the common proclaimed press stated stand for the last five days.
11:12Why don't you, if you have to do it, we have four women's reservations, do it tomorrow.
11:16Call our bluff.
11:17Start it again tomorrow.
11:19Then two more things, Rajdeep.
11:21Till the end, till now as we speak, apart from the oral assurances of the Prime Minister and the Home
11:27Minister,
11:28where do you have a percentage equivalence of states that you had X percent in the old house and you
11:34will have X percent in the 850 house?
11:37If, if assurances of howsoever high a person would do in place of a constitutional amendment would do in place
11:44of a written text,
11:46then you don't need all this procedure.
11:49I mean, I don't understand...
11:50But with your regard, I take your point.
11:52Sir, I take your point.
11:53On the 50%, Amit Shah, just a minute.
11:55Sir, one minute.
11:56Sir, just a minute.
11:56Amit Shah, the Home Minister, in the House today said, give me one hour.
12:00Sir, I will bring an amendment bill that will include 50% written assurance in Parliament.
12:06Okay, now just see.
12:07Just, I'm very glad that you said so.
12:09I'm very glad.
12:10Please ask your viewers, what is the sincerity it depicts?
12:15The Honourable Home Minister of the country, the second most powerful person in the middle of the debate,
12:20which has gone on for two days, for which you had a special session in the middle of elections,
12:25now says something which is known to everyone.
12:30That means this bill has been brought only to fail.
12:34It has been brought only for optics, for political messaging.
12:38You tell me, do you ascribe ignorance to the Honourable Prime Minister and Home Minister
12:43that two lines could have been put in the original draft?
12:47And does it stand to reason that they will say it one hour before the voting?
12:50It's nothing but a sharaat.
12:52Yeah, but if Masih's Modi Shah have lost the debate in the House in terms of the failure to get
12:58two-thirds majority,
13:00they will claim that they've got their political messaging, their optics out right till the very end.
13:04How?
13:05Whether it's the Parliamentary Affairs Minister, whether it's the Home Minister,
13:07they are saying the women of the country have been betrayed by the opposition.
13:11On the contrary, Rajdeep, they stand exposed for dressing up like a sheep and pushing a bull's agenda.
13:18Why?
13:19Because we have repeated that we are ready to go for women's reservation tomorrow.
13:24You already have an operationalized amendment of 2023 notified yesterday at 10 o'clock.
13:31We have said again and again that women's reservation requires nothing if you are going by 2011,
13:38although the correct thing would be to have a proper census.
13:41But if it's 2011 we are both swearing by, then it can be done.
13:47So how is it that we are speaking for women's reservation?
13:49You are the one.
13:51And just one more thing, Rajdeep, very interesting.
13:53The standard absolute sequence for this has to be census, delimitation, women's reservation.
14:00What you have done is, no census or an old census, women's reservation first and then delimitation.
14:09Never has this kind of distortion been allowed.
14:12So it's a charade, it's a game.
14:14So what happens now?
14:15Do you believe the entire issue in conclusion of women's reservation has once again been pushed down or simply extended
14:25for another day?
14:26Well, in case…
14:27The can has been pushed down the street again?
14:30In case the government does not do either.
14:33I am giving you an alternative scenario.
14:35The government does not agree to our 543-2011 census reservation.
14:42That's model one.
14:43You are the one who is saying, no, not me.
14:46Alternative model.
14:48You want 850, you can get the census just started in 26, done by 27, 28.
14:56And then, as per that, don't proclaim a figure of 850, but do it as per that.
15:02You will still possibly, with some pushing, have a women's reservation before 29.
15:06Okay.
15:06Now, the beauty here is, you want to do neither.
15:09And you want to blame the opposition.
15:11You will not do 543 on 2011.
15:17Okay.
15:18I am going to leave it there, Dr. Singhvi.
15:20What you are telling me is basically that even today the opposition is willing to support any legislative attempt to
15:28have 181 seats out of 543 reserved for women.
15:32It's the fastest way to ensure it before the 20, 29 elections.
15:37Or even alternatively, or even alternatively, do the census over by 28 and have the delimitation and do it on
15:45the higher number of seats.
15:46Okay.
15:47I am going to leave it.
15:47You can't say no to both.
15:48Okay.
15:49I am going to leave it there, Dr. Singhvi.
15:50You have given us a strong perspective from the opposition at the top of the show.
15:55Thank you very much for joining me.
15:56Thank you so much.
15:57Thank you so much.
16:00Okay.
16:00We have heard from Abhishek Manu Singhvi of the Congress.
16:04Let's turn to our guest from the BJP, Lalita Kumaramanglam, former chairperson of the National Commission of Women.
16:10She has also been a spokesperson in the past of the Bharatiya Janta Party.
16:13Good to have you on the show, Lalita Kumaramanglam.
16:15You might have heard Abhishek Manu Singhvi making it very clear that if the government was serious about women's reservation,
16:22they could have done it within the existing 543 member Lok Sabha, gone back to the 2011 legislation, given one
16:29third of the seats to women.
16:30Or they could have speeded up the entire process of census and delimitation.
16:34They've sat on it for three years and suddenly woken up, even notified it only late last night.
16:41So, where do you stand?
16:43What was the...
16:44How do you respond to Dr. Singhvi's charge that the government was not serious about it?
16:48What was weaponizing women's reservation to actually push delimitation?
16:55Rajdeep, I'm not going to talk today as a politician.
16:57I'm going to talk today as an Indian woman who is deeply, grievously disappointed at the patriarchal behavior of the
17:06opposition.
17:07Women in India have been waiting for reservation for more than 40 years.
17:12Two of the women who really started this struggle, Renu Chakravarti, the late Nikhil Chakravarti's wife, and Geetha Mukherjee.
17:21She's also late Geetha Mukherjee.
17:23Geetha Mukherjee, by the way, was a grand-aunt of mine, my mother's aunt.
17:26I have seen these two women at very close range, and I have sort of not studied, but I have
17:33been made aware of the struggle that women have had in this country to be allowed to participate in the
17:41governance of this country.
17:43I'm not talking about DEI.
17:45All of that is just word, it's just rhetoric.
17:47Finally, a PM came in who said, you know, despite the 2023 passing, it was never brought into implementation.
17:55The bill has been passed.
17:56What's the point of it being passed if it can't be implemented?
18:00Finally, today, all of us thought across the board, and this has nothing to do with politics or political affiliation.
18:08If you meet a lot of opposition women parliamentarians without them being on camera, they will tell you exactly what
18:15I'm saying now.
18:16That all that we want is to get our constitutional right to be able to also participate in what is
18:28called the dance of democracy.
18:30Alright.
18:30Thank you, ma'am, we have not just 13%.
18:31Pat, ma'am, ma'am.
18:36Just a minute, ma'am.
18:37existem sit at 23.
18:38If it was given, why do we have only 13 percent women parliamentarians?
18:42So...
18:42No, no, mĂĽm .
18:43Ma'am, can I just ask you a simple question?
18:46I want to know, as you said, 2023, the Nari Shakti Vandana bill, one minute was passed.
18:54It was passed, one minute, unanimously passed by parliament.
18:59What was decided that post-census and delimitation, the women's reservation will come into force, 33% passed by parliament.
19:07What stopped this government in the last three years from implementing it, from going ahead with the census, pushing faster
19:14with delimitation?
19:15Nothing stopped the government?
19:16You just use the words post-delimitation, Rajdeep.
19:19Delimitation, we have 1.4 billion people.
19:23What the BJP government has been trying to do or tried to do today was to say that let us
19:28pass this and implement it.
19:31Delimitation, if it is not done by 2029, it means we still won't have reservation for women.
19:36We still remain only 13-14% in parliament.
19:40And isn't that a crying shame, regardless of which party has happened in the room?
19:43I couldn't agree with you more, it's a crying shame.
19:46I am not saying…
19:46It's a crying shame, therefore I give you a solution.
19:49Ma'am, just a minute now.
19:51Ma'am, can I therefore turn…
19:53No, no, one minute.
19:54If you want it to be passed, just a minute now.
19:56If you want it to be passed, tomorrow morning itself, tomorrow morning itself, go back and say,
20:015.43 members of the Lok Sabha, forget delimitation, we are giving one-third to women.
20:06You yourself just said this to Abhishek Wanda Singh.
20:09Isn't that exactly what Amit Shah said?
20:12Give me an hour and I'll make the amendment and bring it.
20:15Today only politics…
20:16No, Amit Shah said 50% seats will be increased across states.
20:20Amit Shah didn't refer to 5.43.
20:22I'm sorry, you can tomorrow bring 5.43 member assembly, you can give one-third tomorrow morning.
20:28Yeah, but then what are we going to do once delimitation comes in?
20:32The same parties that said that let's link it to delimitation at one time, about a decade back,
20:38today is saying something else.
20:40Basically, this is just the most horrible form of patriarchal resistance to giving women
20:46their constitutional rights in this country, aside from politics.
20:50I don't know what party, which party, but I have worked on women's equality and this
20:58is the most basic thing, where women also have a chance to make policy, to influence policy,
21:04to make decisions that will change the countries, you know, the countries.
21:10Look, it's not just…
21:11Women actually run families across the world, it's not just India.
21:15We ask for representation in democracy, in parliament, or the houses of parliament,
21:21whatever they may call it in the different countries, so that we too can be rightfully
21:26participants in democracy.
21:30We had to fight so long for the vote.
21:32Ma'am, I take your point.
21:34We have been fighting for this for 40, 45 years.
21:36Ma'am, I take…
21:37Today, it was just a farce that was played out.
21:39I don't care who, which man is in which party, who gets offended, who doesn't.
21:43It was just a farce that was played out.
21:46Okay, can I ask you that way you're saying, you're saying what happened…
21:49Bortschimes just stuck to a point where they just refused to mediate or whatever the word
21:54you want to use is.
21:56Finally, at the point when the Prime Minister said, fine, give me a little time, let's see
22:01what we can do.
22:02Ma'am, can I just tell you…
22:03Voting to place and it was rejected.
22:05So, we are out to the court again.
22:08Lanita Kumarabangalam, let me ask you the question.
22:10You're saying that this was a farce.
22:11Very simple.
22:13The Home Minister of the country, please listen carefully.
22:15Home Minister of the country on the floor of the House addressed a major opposition concern
22:20about delimitation working to the disadvantage of certain states, saying it will be 50% uniform.
22:26I will bring a fresh bill.
22:28Now, this is a constitution amendment.
22:29The same thing could have been done, organized an all-party meeting.
22:32All stakeholders could have met two weeks ago and instead of doing all of this on the
22:37floor of the House, the farce that you call, if you were serious in your intent, you could
22:41have had an all-party meeting.
22:43The government seemingly, according to the opposition, only brought this to create optics,
22:47political messaging, that the Prime Minister is genuine about women's empowerment.
22:51The fact is that you're saying it's a farce, both sides therefore.
22:55One side is saying Prime Minister has done it for optics.
22:57You're saying the other side used the occasion to block the bill.
23:03My point is there's already a law.
23:05It's already law notified last night.
23:07Yes.
23:08Notified for three years.
23:09They did not even notify it.
23:11For three years, the government did not even notify the bill.
23:15Because to notify it, certain other things were required, which is what they're trying to do today.
23:19For three years, you couldn't notify it?
23:22Yes, because deliberation, sorry, the new census, people have been trying to implement it for
23:28the last four years.
23:30I know that because, I mean, I was part of it initially when there were some doubts that
23:34came up and I was called for some sort of consultation.
23:37But the point is not that.
23:39The point is that finally, when it actually could have been pushed through, it wasn't.
23:44And that is the greatest and most bitter disappointment for all in this country, across the board.
23:51It is a fact that it was two leftist women, Geetha Mukherjee and Nikhil Chakraborty's wife,
23:58Renmi Chakraborty, who actually started, initiated this idea.
24:02I have seen it when I was a young girl.
24:05Today, those two ladies must be turning in their graves.
24:08I mean, there are always some excuses found.
24:11Whether it's procedural, whether it's political, whether it's something else, women across
24:18the board, and I'm not saying this for one party or the other, BJP versus Congress, nothing.
24:23Across the board, it is very obvious to women like me who have worked all their lives and
24:28waited to see at least the next generation reap the benefit of this reservation, that patriarchy
24:34in this country today has won.
24:36You may put whatever mask you want on it.
24:38Abhishek Manu Singh, we may use his beautiful English to put some mask on it.
24:42You may put something, somebody else from the other side may say something else.
24:45The truth is that the women of this country lost.
24:49And that is what makes a lot of us very sad and very bitterly sad.
24:54It could have gone through.
24:55Neither side will go into compromise.
24:57Neither side, every side will throw brickbats at each other.
25:00But how does that help the women of this country?
25:02Even now, we are the pichra who are people in this country.
25:06If you take even a census where you take the economics of people into account, you will
25:12see that women are the poorest of the poor.
25:14No property, violence, every sort of point that comes up.
25:23We are in the back.
25:25This would have given us a good chance.
25:27I'm not saying it would have solved all problems.
25:30Problems are not solved overnight and we've already, we are more than 75 years old in
25:33the Republic.
25:34Nothing much has changed according to me.
25:36Lalita and Kumara Mangala, I've heard you.
25:39I've heard you.
25:40I've given you sufficient the same time I gave Dr. Singhvi.
25:43I don't discriminate between men and women on my show.
25:46In fact, I prefer women guests in general.
25:49You all are often far more articulate than most of the men that I have on the show.
25:53Let me say that.
25:54And I am one of those who believes that the more women we have in parliament and the more
25:57women we have across the board in state assemblies, India will be richer for it.
26:02But I do believe that there are processes that should be followed and maybe a consensus
26:06could have been reached without the ad hocism that suddenly you bring in an amended constitutionally
26:12amended bill is sought to be amended yet again.
26:14But I'll leave that for another day.
26:16Thank you very much for joining us and giving us your strong viewpoint on the show tonight.
26:22Now remember, what you saw today between my two guests was a trailer in a way or a final
26:28act of what we saw all day in the Lok Sabha.
26:31Heated debate on the constitution amendment bill.
26:34Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the opposition, accusing the government of bypassing the constitution.
26:38Home Minister Amit Shah claiming the opposition had failed the women of the country.
26:43Listen in.
26:45Venu Gopal ji nne dho chijay kari ki ek toh pachas pachas pachisat arakshan ar pachas pachasat
26:53site badaai ji ji ji usko bil me saamil karne ke liye official amendment lanne ke liye
26:58tayyar ho haaji me tayyar.
27:05Eek sekund, eek sekund.
27:07Ab nahi hoota bai, betcha.
27:08Ab nahi hoota bai, manewar, eek gantte ab saadhan shtagiit kar dijay.
27:13Eek gantte mei, mei, mei, mei, mei, mei, mei, paas mei tayyar hai.
27:17I will circulate all of them because we have 50% of our population, we don't have anything to do,
27:26we don't have to do anything, we don't have to do anything.
27:53I will circulate all of them because we don't have to do anything, we don't have to do anything.
28:10We don't have to do anything again, we don't have to do anything before the 19th century.
28:15That's why, that's why, the people who say that we should be able to do anything, we should be able
28:23to do anything before the 19th century.
28:35You are telling the South Indian states, you are telling the Northeastern states, you are telling small states in India,
28:48that in order for the BJP to remain in power, we are going to take away representation from you.
28:58This is nothing short of an anti-national act.
29:05This is what you are doing.
29:07And under no circumstances are we going to allow you to do it.
29:15So I am telling you very clearly right now that the entire opposition is going to defeat this attempt of
29:22yours to attack the nation state and deprive OBCs and Ghalets of their rightful place in society.
29:59I am telling you very much.
30:00This, what?
30:04This is what the general forces have to carry on.
30:07He said that I am not going to be able to do this, but I am not going to be
30:15able to do this.
30:15We are going to be able to do this.
30:22We don't want to be able to do this.
30:52There is a central fundamental confusion in the minds of the BJP and its leadership.
31:01ματα. And the confusion is that they think they are the people of India. You are not
31:08the people of India. The people of India are something else.They also think that they are
31:13the armed forces. You are not the armed forces.
31:16The armed forces are something else. You're a political organization. You are not India
31:21and you are not the armed forces of India. We are not attacking the people of India.
31:26We are not attacking the armed forces of India
31:29We are attacking you
31:29Do not hide behind the people of India
31:32Or behind the armed forces
31:36So stop hiding like cowards
31:38Behind the armed forces
31:40And behind the people
31:41Come out and talk to us
31:43And have a discussion with us
31:47Okay you heard two sides
31:48Fiery debate
31:49I want to ask though the question that really
31:52Needs to be asked
31:53Women's reservation
31:54How do you actually now fast track it
31:57Because there is a consensus that you need
31:5933% reservation
32:01Why no quota on the existing 543 seats
32:04Call it the Rajdeep formula
32:05Call it whatever you want
32:06181 out of 543 existing number
32:09Why can't you do it tomorrow morning
32:11Is delimitation therefore essential
32:13For women's quota as it appeared
32:15That the government seems to believe
32:18These are some of the questions I want to raise
32:20Joining me now is Yogendra Yadav
32:22Co-founder Swaraj India
32:24Dr. S.Y. Qureshi is former Chief Election Commissioner
32:27And Rajat Sethi political analyst joining me
32:29I appreciate all of you joining us
32:31I want to come to each of you
32:33And ask you
32:34Do you believe that there is a simpler way
32:36To implement women's reservation
32:38Than what we have seen
32:39Dr. Qureshi
32:40Why don't you start first
32:48Dr. Qureshi
32:49Dr. Qureshi
32:51One second
32:54One second
32:55One second
32:56One second
32:58Yeah go ahead
33:00Okay we will try and come to you later
33:02Let me go to Yogendra Yadav then first
33:03Yogendra Yadav
33:04Was there a simpler way
33:05To ensure 33% reservation for women
33:08On which in 2023
33:10There was a complete all party consensus
33:14Absolutely Rajdeep
33:16We have after a very very long struggle
33:20Long dodging
33:22Finally this country agreed in 2023
33:25That yes we need one third reservation
33:29Unfortunately
33:30Two qualifications were put in that legislation
33:33Which had actually nothing to do with women's reservation
33:37This was made conditional on one
33:40Census
33:41I fail to understand
33:43What does census have to do with women's reservation
33:45Do we want to find out if this country
33:47Has more than one third women or what
33:49The second condition was
33:51Delimitation
33:52I still
33:53I mean I've studied the elections for 20-30 years
33:57I cannot understand
33:59Why do you need a delimitation
34:02Fresh drawing of boundaries
34:04Fresh allocation of seats
34:07For different states
34:08Before you give one third seat to women
34:11So the simple answer Rajdeep is
34:14Yes it could have been done
34:16It needed just a one line amendment
34:18In article 334A1
34:21That is and the amendment would simply read
34:24That the reference to delimitation
34:27And census is omitted
34:30That's all you needed
34:31You did not have to attach it to all other things
34:34Sadly just as it was done in 2023
34:38Two additional things were inserted
34:40And this is exactly what has been
34:42What has happened this time again
34:44It has been made conditional on
34:46Increase in the total number of parliament
34:48Why?
34:49Why do we need to do that?
34:50Is it a scheme to compensate men
34:52For the loss that they would suffer?
34:54Why do you need delimitation
34:56If the government now acknowledges
34:59As they did
35:00That census was not necessary
35:02So now the government wanted it to be done
35:04Without census
35:05All right
35:05So you acknowledge half of your mistake
35:08Why don't you acknowledge all the mistake
35:10And say you don't need it
35:11And write it honestly
35:13And that's why I feel sad
35:15You know people are celebrating
35:16And saying great victory for opposition
35:18I for one feel sad
35:20That we once again came this close
35:22To operationalizing women's reservation
35:25Mind you it's only about operationalizing now
35:28Nothing else remains to be done
35:29We came this close
35:31And sadly because of the devious
35:33And cynical designs of this government
35:36Once again women's reservation
35:38Was linked to things that it has nothing to do with
35:41Once again it has been postponed
35:43Once again it has been done in a devious way
35:46Once again women have been used as a shield
35:49For a design which is
35:51A devious design for changing the
35:54Very structure
35:56And the very nature of our parliamentary democracy
36:00Wrong words there
36:01That all we needed was actually to remove the words
36:04Delimitation and census
36:05And thereby get the bill passed
36:07Rajat Sethi do you agree with that?
36:10Well Rajdeep ji it's easier said than done
36:131996 exactly 30 years back
36:15Was this simple formula of
36:17We are calling the Rajdeep version
36:19Was floated
36:20Why haven't the parliaments
36:23Led by all kinds of parties
36:25Right from H.D. Dewegaula
36:28To Atalji's time
36:30To UPA's time
36:31And back to Modi's time
36:32Why haven't they been able to address this core issue?
36:36You know there could be multiple reasons
36:38Could there be a formula where you create a win-win scenario
36:40Where no sitting member of parliament feels dejected
36:43Or says that my share of representation has gone away
36:46Or my claim to represent my people has gone away
36:50Possibly one
36:51You know somebody would have thought
36:52In the current government
36:54That let's try to formulate in a way
36:56That no sitting member of parliament feels
37:00You know his or her right has been taken away
37:02I mean tomorrow let me tell you
37:04You know hypothetically
37:05If he were to divide the existing 543 seats
37:09And gave away one third
37:11What if Mr. Rahul Gandhi's seat would have gone away?
37:14It could have very well been the case
37:16That several you know prominent leaders
37:18Of Samajwadi party
37:20Would have lost their seats to women reservation
37:21And then they will go out and cry wolf
37:24That see this is the reason why women reservation
37:26Was brought away
37:27And my representation has gone away
37:29From the look
37:30So what was the better solution?
37:32I'm looking now for solution
37:33What was the better solution in your view?
37:36So my limited understanding is
37:38That where BJP's intention has always been clear
37:42Not just now but right from 2024
37:43When Prime Minister and Home Minister
37:46Both have articulated this
37:47That the representation of the southern states
37:49Will not go down
37:50It should have seen reflected into the bill
37:53The problem is more legal
37:55And I have been speaking to certain lawyers
37:59You know you couldn't have put in a ban
38:01That UP is going to get say 120 to 125 C
38:04Southern states
38:05Individual states will get X to Y seats
38:07Because each of these could have become ultra-wires
38:09And it could have gone into
38:10And fallen flat in the Supreme Court itself
38:13Because now you are getting into
38:15A wise 50% increase
38:17And a proportionate representation
38:19Should not be considered arbitrary
38:20Tell me this thing
38:21That the core basic structure of the Constitution
38:24Is centred around the fundamental pillar
38:26Of proportional representation in Lok Sabha
38:28Now you are taking away the basic constitutional structure
38:32Which requires the Constitutional Assembly to be reconstituted
38:35At least there could have been a theoretical challenge to it
38:37Now my problem here is that BJP tried to steer away
38:41With these kind of legal questions
38:43Which could have ended up in the court
38:44By giving assurances
38:46I agree with Yogendraji repeatedly over the past two days
38:49He has said that this should have been reflected in the bill
38:51And I believe some kind of a legal way should have been found out
38:55And there is still time
38:56I mean BJP being the big brother in the politics
38:59Should take this bitter pill
39:00Go back to the drawing board
39:02And come up with this bill again
39:05I take your point Rajat
39:07The simple way would have been
39:08At least to call an all party meeting
39:10Have a broad consensus
39:11These are very contentious issues
39:13You can't stand in the middle of parliament suddenly
39:15And say give me one hour
39:16I will now add 50% per state
39:19And bring a fresh amendment bill
39:21It showed a certain ad hocism
39:23That seemed to unfortunately
39:25Prevent this bill from becoming reality
39:27Dr. S.Y. Qureshi
39:28I read an article by you
39:29Where you had an interesting formula
39:31Of proportional representation
39:33That you were suggesting
39:34Do you want to elaborate
39:35How do you break this logjam
39:37A quick answer
39:37Yes
39:38First of all I agree with Rajat
39:40In the sense that
39:43Reservation within 543
39:45Is not possible
39:46Before the last 30 years
39:47It has not been possible
39:49For the same reason
39:49That the men would not like to
39:51Part with their seats
39:52Therefore we have to
39:54Think of another solution
39:55And what I had proposed was
39:57That create additional seats
39:59For which capacity in the house
40:01Is now available
40:02And cabinet has already
40:04Passed its decision
40:05That 272 new seats
40:07Will be created
40:08And I have suggested
40:09That all of them
40:10Should be given to women
40:11And that will make it
40:1233% reservation for them
40:14And every party
40:16So you are saying
40:17How would you
40:17Just a minute
40:18You are saying
40:19543 seats of the Lok Sabha
40:21Add 272 more seats
40:22Correct?
40:24Yes
40:25And give those seats
40:27Exclusively for women
40:28Exactly
40:29Exactly
40:30How would you decide
40:31How would you decide
40:32On which state
40:33Gets how many seats?
40:35Yeah
40:36Correct
40:36No
40:37My formula has been
40:39That you give it
40:39To the political parties
40:41Even in the current house
40:42On the basis
40:43Of their vote share
40:44And if vote share
40:46Is not able to
40:47On the basis
40:48Of seat share
40:48Which is the existing
40:49Seat share
40:50So you don't have to
40:51Bother about the census
40:52To 2011
40:53Of the current census
40:54Delimitation
40:56Why
40:56And I have said
40:57That why hold
40:58Women's reservation
40:59Hostage
41:00To controversial issues
41:02Bypass them
41:03And take a safer route
41:04Okay
41:05You know
41:05Effectively you are saying
41:06You could have had
41:07A mix of proportional
41:08Representation
41:09And of course
41:10First pass the post
41:11As a system
41:12And thereby
41:13Created
41:14Women's reservation
41:15Without any need
41:16Necessary
41:17For either delimitation
41:18Or a census
41:19Exactly
41:20Yogendra Yadav
41:20Yes
41:21Yogendra Yadav
41:22I have also mentioned
41:23That even if it is
41:24Considered as an
41:25Interim measure
41:26But let us try it out
41:28Because in the long run
41:29When the delimitation
41:30Commission is formed
41:31These may be merged
41:32With the delimitation
41:34Mandate
41:34And the territorial
41:36Constituancy
41:37Could be created
41:37But that is to follow
41:39But if you want
41:40Women immediately
41:40In parliament
41:41This is the way out
41:42What I have suggested
41:43Okay
41:43Very interesting idea
41:45Again
41:45Yogendra Yadav
41:46You know
41:47At least
41:47There is something
41:48An attempt made
41:49To break the logjam
41:50That 543
41:52MPs
41:53Let us be honest
41:53The men don't want
41:54To give up
41:55Their 181 seats
41:58Rajdeep
41:59I will not get into
42:00Alternative formula
42:01The fact is that
42:02I had myself
42:03Floated an alternative
42:04About 15 years ago
42:05The fact is that
42:07I have not been
42:07A votary of
42:08Geographical seat
42:09Reservation
42:10But all that is
42:11History
42:11Rajdeep
42:40If in 2023
42:42So the basic
42:43So the basic
42:43Mechanism
42:44Was settled
42:44By the country
42:46About whether
42:47It is geographical
42:48Or something else
42:49That I think
42:50I have at least
42:50Started relaxing
42:51After that
42:52All right
42:52The country
42:53Has made up
42:53Its mind
42:54It is not
42:54For me to
42:54Suggest
42:55Changes right now
42:56The only question
42:57Should be
42:58Operationalization
42:59I agree with
43:00Rajdeep
43:01In one thing
43:01That no party
43:03Can claim to be
43:04Dood ka dula hua
43:06If you look at
43:07The time when
43:08Gita Mukherjee
43:09The late Gita Mukherjee
43:10Started speaking
43:11About it
43:12The fact is that
43:13Every single party
43:14Must carry some
43:15Blame in not
43:16Being able to
43:17Do it
43:18Must carry the
43:19Guilt and the
43:20Sin of
43:21Allowing patriarchy
43:22Not to
43:23Not to
43:25Operationalize
43:25This thing
43:26However
43:27I disagree
43:28With one thing
43:28That Rajdeep
43:29Is saying
43:29That you
43:30And Mr.
43:31Qureshi
43:31Also seem to
43:32Agree
43:32Oh men
43:33Will not
43:34Agree
43:34How can
43:35We do
43:35That
43:35Rajdeep
43:36Why can
43:36How can
43:37That be
43:37A constraint
43:38No I am
43:39Not saying
43:39It is a constraint
43:40I am giving
43:40The reality
43:40No no
43:41Sir
43:42Yogendraji
43:42I believe
43:43There should
43:43Be 181
43:44Seats out
43:45Of 543
43:45Reserve
43:46For women
43:46But I am
43:47Saying
43:47The men
43:48Will resist
43:49It
43:49I have seen
43:50It happening
43:50And therefore
43:51It is
43:51Impractical
43:53Rahu
43:54Rajdeep
43:56When
43:57Scheduled
43:58Caste
43:58Reservation
43:59Came
43:59A lot
44:00Of people
44:00Didn't
44:00Want it
44:01They resisted
44:02It
44:02When OBC
44:03Reservation
44:03Came
44:04People resisted
44:05It
44:05Whenever
44:06A measure
44:07Of social
44:07Justice
44:08Is brought
44:08About
44:09Those who
44:10Are in
44:10Power
44:10Do not
44:11Like it
44:12Rajdeep
44:12Says
44:12What if
44:13Rahul
44:13Gandhi's
44:14Seat
44:14Is reserved
44:14All right
44:15He should
44:16Go and
44:16Find another
44:17Seat
44:17For himself
44:17If
44:18Akhlej
44:18Yadav's
44:19Seat
44:19Is reserved
44:19If these
44:20People claim
44:21To be
44:21State and
44:22National
44:22Leaders
44:22They should
44:23Be able
44:23To find
44:23Another
44:23Seat
44:24For themselves
44:24That's
44:25Why should
44:26That constrain
44:27Us
44:27I am
44:28Very
44:28I am
44:29Glad that
44:30Rajdeep
44:30Has spoken
44:31Actually
44:31Openly
44:32And you
44:32Know
44:32Frankly
44:33The fact
44:34That there
44:34Was something
44:36That held
44:36The BJP
44:37Back
44:38From
44:39Actually
44:40Incorporating
44:41What the
44:42Promise was
44:43Being made
44:43To the
44:44Country
44:44Into the
44:45Pick
44:45For three
44:46Weeks
44:47We heard
44:47Every state
44:48Will get
44:4850%
44:49Proportion
44:50People like
44:51Me were
44:51Saying after
44:52The bill
44:52Came
44:52Show me
44:53Where is
44:54It
44:54And the
44:54Fact is
44:55It was
44:55Not there
44:56What
44:57Prevented
44:57That
44:57Rajdeep
44:58Thinks
44:58That this
44:58Would have
44:59Been a
44:59Constitutional
45:00Issue
45:00I beg
45:01To disagree
45:01Rajdeep
45:02If
45:0350 year
45:04Freeze
45:04Of
45:05Delimitation
45:05Has not
45:06Been a
45:07Constitutional
45:08Issue
45:08Has not
45:09Been
45:09Declared
45:10Unconstitutional
45:11By the
45:11Supreme
45:12Court
45:12And if
45:13In the
45:14Present
45:14Bill
45:15And the
45:16Existing
45:17Provision
45:18In
45:18Northeastern
45:20States
45:20That
45:21Whatever
45:22The new
45:22Allocation
45:23It cannot
45:24Reduce
45:25The number
45:25Of
45:26Scheduled
45:26Tribe
45:27Seats
45:28All these
45:29Have been
45:29Existing
45:30Provisions
45:30If that
45:32Can pass
45:32Muster
45:33With the
45:33Judiciary
45:33I see
45:34Absolutely
45:35No reason
45:36Why a
45:37Reference
45:38To 1971
45:39And maintaining
45:41The ratios
45:42Could not
45:43Have been
45:43Put in the
45:43Constitution
45:44Unfortunately
45:45All this
45:46Is
45:47Just bad
45:47Faith
45:48I really
45:49Do feel
45:49That it
45:50Was a
45:51Cynical
45:51Move
45:52The whole
45:52Idea was
45:53To push
45:54Delimitation
45:55Through
45:55Somehow
45:55And to
45:56Use
45:56Women's
45:57Reservation
45:57As a
45:58Shield
45:58As always
45:59You made
46:00The point
46:00Rajat
46:01You want
46:01A quick
46:01Response
46:02Give me
46:02An idea
46:02I hope
46:05To see
46:05Women's
46:05Reservation
46:06In my
46:06Lifetime
46:08So I
46:09Want to
46:09Know
46:09How
46:10Is that
46:11Going to
46:11Be
46:11Achieved
46:11Give me
46:12The
46:12Simpler
46:12You know
46:13The idea
46:14We have
46:14Now discussed
46:14The alleged
46:16Cynicism
46:16On one
46:17Side
46:17Opportunism
46:18These words
46:19Can be
46:19Used
46:20But give
46:20Me an
46:20Idea
46:21Big
46:21Idea
46:21To do
46:22It
46:22Which
46:22Will
46:23Be
46:23Immediately
46:24Acceptable
46:24Tomorrow
46:25Morning
46:26I think
46:27Being a
46:28Political
46:28As much
46:29As I
46:29Can
46:29I can
46:30Tell you
46:30That both
46:31The parties
46:31Will
46:31Both
46:32UPA
46:33Or
46:33India
46:33Alliance
46:34On one
46:34Side
46:34And
46:35NDA
46:35On the
46:35Other
46:35Side
46:35Will
46:36Try
46:36And reap
46:36Political
46:37Benefits
46:37Out of
46:38It
46:38Let them
46:38Do
46:39That
46:39Let
46:39The
46:39Tests
46:40Settle
46:40And
46:41Let
46:41The core
46:42Promise
46:42Around
46:43Delimitation
46:43Some
46:44Back
46:44Channel
46:44Conversations
46:45Because
46:45Public
46:45Speaking
46:46I
46:47Don't
46:47Think
46:47Southern
46:47States
46:48And
46:48The
46:48Parties
46:48Which
46:48Are
46:49Currently
46:49In
46:49Power
46:49There
46:50Have
46:50Any
46:50Incentive
46:51To
46:51Agree
46:51To
46:51Any
46:52Formula
46:52Even
46:53With
46:53The
46:53Right
46:53Intention
46:54It
46:54Is
46:54Being
46:55Tabled
46:55Because
46:55Their
46:56Entire
46:56Politics
46:56Gets
46:57Called
46:57Into
46:57Question
46:58And
46:58I
46:58Don't
46:58Forsee
46:59The
46:59Kind
46:59Of
47:00Political
47:00Immaturity
47:01That
47:01DMK
47:02And
47:02Other
47:02Parties
47:03Have
47:03Been
47:03Consistently
47:03Showing
47:04I
47:04Mean
47:04I
47:05Can
47:05Tell
47:06You
47:06Tell
47:06Me
47:06Today
47:07There
47:07Is
47:07A
47:17On
47:17The
47:17Streets
47:17The
47:18Way
47:18You
47:18Expect
47:18Southern
47:19State
47:19People
47:19To
47:19Be
47:19On
47:20The
47:20Streets
47:20Even
47:20Their
47:20Representation
47:21Is
47:21Getting
47:22Impacted
47:24Which
47:25Is
47:26Exactly
47:26Why
47:26I
47:27Say
47:27You
47:27Can
47:28Delimitation
47:28From
47:29Women's
47:29Reservation
47:30Delimitation
47:30Is
47:31A
47:31Hot
47:31Potato
47:31You
47:32Could
47:32Have
47:32Delimked
47:33It
47:33And
47:34As
47:34A
47:34First
47:34Step
47:34Focused
47:35On
47:35Women's
47:35Reservation
47:36That
47:36Is
47:36The
47:36Point
47:36I
47:37Keep
47:37Making
47:38Delimitation
47:39Has
47:39To
47:39Happen
47:40But
47:40It
47:40Can
47:40Happen
47:40Subsequently
47:41See
47:42Fine
47:43I
47:43Mean
47:43Post
47:44Facto
47:44You
47:44Can
47:44Come
47:45Up
47:45With
47:45All
47:45Of
47:45These
47:45Propositions
47:46But
47:46I
47:46Think
47:46What
47:47BJP's
47:47Intent
47:47Here
47:48Was
47:48That
47:49There
47:49Are
47:49A lot
47:49Of
47:49Issues
47:50Centred
47:50Around
47:51Creating
47:51New
47:52Seeds
47:52Creating
47:52A
47:53Win
47:53Win
47:53Formula
47:53You
47:54Might
47:54Disagree
47:54With
47:55A lot
47:55Of
47:55Hindsight
47:55Benefit
47:56But
47:56BJP's
47:57Intention
47:57Was
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