WOMEN RESERVATION BILL

So after going through lot of blogs, television debates, newspaper article, me and mango man pondered about Women Reservation Bill which was introduced in Rajya Shabha by Congress (I). Right now the status of bill is, it is passed by Rajya Sabha and Congress (I) is embracing to put this bill in Lok Sabha. Coming back to me and mango man pondering over this Bill…Mango man got supercharged when he got to know about the intricacies of this Bill. You know when Mango Man become super charged it’s very hard to cool him down so for the sake of my well being I asked what are the problem he sees in the Bill. I didn’t knew this was coming but he gave me a very big lecture on the pros and cons of this Bill and I like to share with you what Mango Man has to say about this Bill.

This Bill will out rightly kill the Indian Democracy:

The biggest concern of Mango Man is this bill will kill our Democracy and Democracy will be replaced by Quotacracy (MS Word has underlined this word in red as it’s not in the dictionary but it will be part of dictionary very soon.). Now what does Democracy means? Meaning of Democracy from Dictionary.com: a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.

                                           After implementing this bill the supreme power vested in people and free electoral system will be taken away and we the people have to vote for pre decided group of people and in this case it will be gender. If suppose as a voter I don’t want to vote for a women contestant and want to vote for somebody from different gender than my right as a voter is killed by this bill and it’s a very dangerous thing. You start with a picture of utopia and end up in Hell. The best example is Communism where founding principal is to provide equality in term of class, gender and so on but not by choice but by force and we know the result.

Achieving Empowerment of Women through this Bill is mirage:

Political parties which are supporting this bill are saying that his bill will empower women. Can I ask loudly… HOW? Suppose we have this reservation and political party has to field a Women candidate to fight an election, to win election political parties have to look for winnable women candidate and who are those winnable women candidate…poor woman, dalit women, illiterate women…no..not at all…women who has clout and affiliation to rich or political family…so again money, power and dirty politics will come into picture. People who are fighting to implement sub quota in overall quota are right and if somebody says that who is stopping political parties to field muslim, dalit etc women in reserved women seat, by same argument any sane person can reply back that who is stopping political parties to field women politician in general category and why are we having this discussion of reservation.

Women can only understand problem of women and children:

All feminist cry hoarse that in a parochial and patriarchal society women are not treated well and only women can understand their issues and can find solution. Point taken MADAM…then I guess same logic goes for different Class group, Caste group, Religion group…if only a person belonging to a particular group can understand problem of his/her group and capable of finding solutions to those problem than I guess our current parliament system should be abolished and people should be given parliament seat based on their group loyalty and they should represent that particular group only. I thought that in a mature democracy an elected representative will hear issue and concern of all groups and try to achieve a solution which will benefit all. May be I am wrong. I always believe that a good human being will always think for betterment of not only his/her fellow humans but also of whole earth. It doesn’t matter if a good human being is male or female. Anyway if a particular group has lot many grievances and it need detailed attention than it can call for separate ministry with a minister belonging to that particular group and for women rights there is already a Independent National Women Commission and dedicated Ministry…I don’t know why they need separate quota.

Women are not a minority in society:

Nowadays all elite (affiliated to rich and mighty family) women are shouting from their rooftop that current political environment doesn’t provide fair chance to women to win an election. What is the current political environment…select the majority voter base on the basis of caste, creed, religion etc (whatever group which can win you an election) from your constituent and convince them to vote for you. I don’t understand when a Dalit leader can ask for Dalit vote why not a woman leader can ask for women votes. It’s all about convincing your voter base to vote for you and if you are able convince all the women voters to vote for you then I don’t see any reason why can’t you win an election. If we take worst Male to Female gender ratio…it will not go beyond 60:40 and if we talk in term of math than in an election approximate 40% of total population vote and out of that only 15-20 % of vote is needed to win election so in the nutshell you need only 8% vote from total population…hmmm so now if a woman candidate can convince half the adult women to come out (assuming that 30% of total population are adult women )and vote for her than she has 15% total votes. I guess now you can do the math and tell who can win the election.

When mango man got tired explaining me pros and cons of Women Reservation Bill…he gave a clarion call of Hail Democracy…Fall Quotacracy and went to fetch a glass of water for himself leaving me alone thinking…I guess you should also take some time out to think about it…