Jammu, Sep 26: Union Minister Som Parkash on Tuesday said the passage of Women’s Reservation Bill in the Parliament shows the strong commitment of Narendra Modi government to empower women of the country.
“The Women’s Reservation Bill was passed on the first day in the new Parliament, which is a historic moment as all the parties supported the bill and there is nothing left to criticise it,” the Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry said while responding to media queries on the sidelines of the Rozgar Mela being held here at Jammu University.
When asked about Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s remarks that there is no connection between women’s reservation, census and delimitation and that it is a distraction by the Modi government, Parkash said, “He (Rahul) should not be taken seriously. The Congress has failed to pass the bill despite being in power for so long. According to the constitutional provisions, delimitation and census is imperative and all things will happen after that.”
The Congress has questioned why the bill was not being implemented for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and claimed that bringing the women’s reservation bill was a “politically motivated move” and a “jumla” by the BJP government.
The bill, the union minister said, will be implemented after a delimitation exercise to redraw parliamentary and assembly constituencies based on a census which the government has said will be commissioned next year
“Women reservation is a historic step taken by the Modi government for the empowerment of women and I congratulate the government and also all the parties who supported the bill,” he said.
On Rozgar Mela, the union minister said it was the ninth such job fair organised by the government to provide job letters to unemployed youth across the country. “Modi government has promised jobs to the youth and today 51,000 jobs in Central government departments are being provided to them at 45 locations across the country. Likewise, 105 people were given jobs in Jammu,” he said.
