Days after RJD MP Manoj Jha courted an issue together with his ‘Thakur’ reference in Rajya Sabha whereas talking on the ladies’s reservation invoice, one other chief from Lalu Yadav’s get together has kicked up a political storm over the topic. Addressing an occasion in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur, senior RJD politician Abdul Bari Siddiqui warned the viewers that girls “wearing lipsticks and bob-cut hairstyles” would enter parliament within the title of reservation.
RJD chief Abdul Bari Siddiqui
Siddiqui, towing his get together’s line on ladies’s reservation in parliament, stated the Central authorities ought to present reservation to ladies belonging to backward communities. Else, he claimed, these with “lipsticks and bob-cut hairstyles would come forward”.
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Reacting to the comment, BJP MP Sunita Duggal stated on Saturday, “This shows their narrow mindset… Women are making a mark in every area… Giving such statements represents their rude mentality…They want women to do only household work and not contribute to the outside world.”
JMM MP Mahua Maji stated politicians should keep away from statements that may harm ladies.
“We also want the women from backward classes to come forward… We are also talking about the reservation of SC, ST, and OBC women in the Women’s Reservation Bill,” she added.
Accused of narrow-mindedness, Siddiqui issued a clarification and expressed remorse over his comment. He stated his controversial assertion was merely an try to elucidate the implications of the ladies’s reservation regulation to rural ladies current within the viewers “in their language”.
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“In that rally, hundreds of rural women were there… I used that language to explain to the rural women in their language. My intention was not to hurt anyone… If someone is hurt, I express regret… It was a gathering of extremely backward classes and I was teaching them…RJD had been in support of Women’s Reservation since the beginning,” he was quoted as saying by the news company ANI.
On Friday, President Droupadi Murmu gave her assent to the Women’s Reservation Bill that seeks 33 p.c reservation to ladies within the Lok Sabha and state assemblies.
The structure modification invoice was handed by the Lok Sabha with close to unanimity and the Rajya Sabha with unanimity.
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Per the regulation, members of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes will get the advantages of quota inside quota. The opposition, together with the RJD, nonetheless, had demanded that members of Other Backward Classes should additionally get the profit.
Earlier this week, through the debate on the invoice in Rajya Sabha, RJD MP Manoj Jha recited the poem ‘Thakur Ka Kuan’ to emphasise his get together’s demand. The BJP, nonetheless, known as it an insult to the members of the Thakur neighborhood.
With inputs from ANI, PTI
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