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Monday, December 14, 1998

Throw them out, says Jaya

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE  
CHENNAI, DEC 13: With the Government set to introduce the Women's Reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha tomorrow, the battle over the legislation intensified outside. As the key players stuck to their views and reiterated their stands, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) general secretary J Jayalalitha went a step ahead and asked the Speaker to evict violent opponents of the Bill who would try to stall its passage.

Jayalalitha today demanded that the Women's Reservation Bill in its present form be introduced in Parliament tomorrow even if it meant the eviction from the House of those members who sought to disrupt proceedings.

``Since he (Speaker) knows fully well that some members are wantonly raising commotion and resorting to fisticuffs to stall the Women's Reservation Bill, what prevents the Speaker from having such members physically evicted from the House by the marshal and then taking up the unfinished business of the House,'' Jayalalitha said in a statement issued in Chennai today.

InVadodara today, Home Minister L K Advani reiterated that the Women's Reservation Bill would be introduced in Parliament in its original form, as agreed upon by leaders of various political parties. Advani was commenting on a statement made by former Lok sabha speaker P A Sangma that the Congress would consider its support to the Bill in an amended from.

Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party national president Mulayam Singh Yadav today said in Lucknow that the Bill, if passed, would benefit `only devis (haves) and not `dasis' (have-nots)'. The Rashtriya Loktantrik Morcha would continue to oppose the Bill in its present shape, he said.

In a letter to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, Yadav has said that weaker sections of society have been ignored by successive governments since Independence. ``Had they been given special opportunity these communities would have come on par with the `haves','' he said.

Addressing newspersons in Lucknow, Yadav said that in the letter, he had demanded a provision ofreservation for Dalits, Muslims and backwards on the basis of population. He also demanded the quota be reduced from 33 per cent to 10 per cent.

In Chennai, Jayalalitha today fervently appealed to all political parties to extend cooperation to the Government to introduce the Bill providing for 33 per cent reservation for women in the State Legislatures and the Lok Sabha and pave the way for its smooth passage in Parliament tomorrow.

She said minor problems such as scuffles (referring to the one between Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee and Samajwadi Party MPs in Parliament on December 11) ``need not come in the way and could be easily circumvented.'' Jayalalitha said the Speaker should have no problem in handling the ugly situation, ``which is demeaning to our august parliamentary proceedings.

Copyright © 1998 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.

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