Women's Reservation Bill: Parliament adjourned till noon
New Delhi:Both Houses of Parliament were adjourned till noon on Monday following an opposition uproar to the Women’s
Reservation Bill tabled by Law Minister M Veerappa Moily. Representatives of
the Samajwadi Party (SP), the Rashstriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Bahujan Samaj
Party (BSP) demanded reservation for Dalit, Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and
the minority community in the Bill. In the Rajya Sabha, the SP and the RJD disrupted
Question Hour over the implementation of the Mr. Justice Ranganath Mishra
Commission
Report on Minority Welfare. Soon after the Chairman of the Upper House,
Mohammad
Hamid Ansari read out a message on the International Women's Day, SP and RJD
members
demanded a discussion on why the commission’s report recommending reservation
to minorities, was not being implemented. Ansari said they could raise the issue
during Zero Hour and pleaded with them to allow Question Hour to proceed. SP
and
RJD members, however, continued to shout slogans seeking implementation of the
report. They then moved towards the Well of the House forcing Ansari to adjourn
the house.
