Mahua Moitra’s gripe with the Women’s Reservation Bill

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“Can there be a greater scam?” Why did Mahua Moitra compare women and cows in Parliament?

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00:00When this government wanted to protect cows and I support the move make no mistake

00:04You did not wait to count the number of cows

00:07You did not wait to see whether the cow was a jersey or a gear or a Sahiwal

00:12You just went and built the cow shelters

00:14Are we women any less that we have to wait while you count numbers and you draw lines?

00:20Honorable Prime Minister, this is your moment to really show us all

00:24Ki Modi hai toh mumkin hai

00:30At

00:38The very onset

00:40Let us remind ourselves that this is India a country with the point heavy as me in

00:451940 81 years ago 82 years ago

00:49Before independence wrote in his poem or at what Mary John?

00:53Maryside he turned I had to say

00:55Jonathan or hair

00:58Joe mark a palo man. He was key Azad Ravish Parvati machana. I had to say one key to fun

01:04Chalak, nah, hey, oh, but now I had to say what Mary John Maryside he turned I had to say

01:10This is an India where Tagore in 1928 wrote in his poem Shabala

01:15Nadia upon bhaggo joy Kodhi bar can only be the car heavy data

01:19This is an India where in 1946 when the Constituent Assembly was elected

01:2515 seats went to women who had to draft the Constitution

01:28Both the United States and the United Kingdom saw lengthy suffragette movements before women were granted the right to vote

01:35India's founders in

01:371947 apron agreed to the principle of universal adult suffrage giving

01:41Simultaneously the right to vote to women and to men there was never any question of denying women the right to vote while giving

01:48It to men. It is my pride that I belong to the all-india funeral Congress a party that sends 37% women

01:55Among its members to Parliament

01:57It is my chagrin that I belong to a Lok Sabha a house of the people that on aggregate has only

02:0415% of its members as women far below the global average of twenty six and a half percent and

02:10Also below the Asian regional average of twenty one percent, but wait, what does this bill really say?

02:16Article 334 of the bill says the reservation shall come into effect only after

02:23delimitation has been undertaken

02:25Delimitation will only be undertaken after the relevant figures for the next census have been published

02:29It means we don't know if and actually when we will actually have

02:3633% of women sitting in the Lok Sabha. Can there be a greater Jumla forget?

02:412024 this may not even be possible in 2029 to the government and the ruling party

02:46I say this give us this day our equal rights

02:50We hold up half the sky give us at least a third of our earth

02:56Mamata Banerjee and the Trinamool Congress have already

02:59Walked the talk. We don't need to go on record to show this country that we support this bill

03:05We have already sent more MPs than what this bill even envisions

03:09It is you this government this ruling dispensation that needs to go on record

03:14You need to support us not the other way around you need to send more than 33% MPs to this Parliament

03:21When this government wanted to protect cows and I support the move make no mistake

03:26You did not wait to count the number of cows

03:29You did not wait to see whether the cow was a jersey or a beard or a Sahiwal

03:33You just went in with the cow shelters

03:35Are we women any less that we have to wait while you count numbers and you draw lines?

03:42Honorable Prime Minister. This is your moment to really show us all

03:46Kim Odi had to move in hand in conclusion. I can only echo the poet Rihanna Ruhi's words

03:53Dil ke bhelane ka samaan na samjhag jaye, humko ab itna bhi aasaan na samjhag jaye

04:00Hum bhi logon ki tarah jeene ka haq maangte hai, isko bagawat ka ailaan na samjhag jaye

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