Yadav’s Conspiracy: ‘33% Women’s will weaken India’–Samajwadi Party

Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav sees an international conspiracy to weaken Bharat (aka India). Mr. Yadav thinks that by increasing the women in the Bharati parliament, the parliament will be run by 85% of even 100% women. This is seen as a major catastrophe by Mr. Yadav. Mr. Yadav and his acolytes give the example of Pakistan, Lanka, and Bangladesh–where women have ruled the countries– as reasons for not having more women in the Bharati parliament.

Others in the party think of women as incompetent and unable to hold public office.

All of these forget the fact that Sonia Gandhi holds the strings that make Manmohand Singh use his hands or mouth. He can do nothing that does not have the approval of Soniajee!

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Sunday said the women’s reservation bill was an “international conspiracy” to weaken Indian democracy and said it would ultimately lead to an all-women parliament that would be “alarming” for the country.

“The women’s reservation bill will eventually weaken Indian democracy and it is really unfortunate that the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government at the Centre was playing into the hands of those whose only intent was to break the backbone of Indian democracy,” Mulayam Singh said at a press conference here.

He was of the view that 33 per cent reservation for women in legislatures would finally make it a nearly all-women parliament.

“The manner in which 33 per cent seats would be reserved for women in every election, would lead to sending about 80-85 per cent women to the parliament,” he said.

Terming that as an “alarming situation”, he asked, “just imagine what would be the fate of this nation in the hands of inexperienced leadership, with both Pakistan and China sitting across our borders with their own nefarious designs?”

He claimed that the reservation bill would further deprive members of the minority communities, tribals and Dalits from entering parliament or state legislatures.

“As it is, as many as a dozen states had not elected a single Muslim at the last election; therefore it was extremely important that the bill provides for reservation of some seats for women belonging to the minority community, OBCs and Dalits,” he stressed.

“I am not opposed to reservation for women, but I am opposed to the bill in its present form,” Mulayam Singh added.

He said that Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president Lalu Prasad and Janata Dal-United (JD-U) chief Sharad Yadav were also with him on the issue and that they would continue to fight together against the bill. IANS: Published on Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 15:10, Updated on Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 15:50 in Politics section

It is poignant to note that several states could not even find one qualified Muslim candidate to send to parliament

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