India: Parliament Passes Law Reserving 1/3 of All Electoral Seats for Women

I truly believed that India was going in the right direction.

So much for that, I guess.

Wow.

This is more hardcore than the rules we have in the West.

ABC News:

India’s Parliament has approved landmark legislation that reserves 33% of the seats in its powerful lower house and in state legislatures for women to ensure more equal representation, ending a 27-year impasse over the bill amid a lack of consensus among political parties.

But the wait is still not over, as the new law will not apply to next year’s national elections.

It will be implemented in the 2029 national elections following a new census and adjustment of voting districts after next year’s polls, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said during a debate in the upper house of India’s Parliament on Thursday night.

The lower house of Parliament approved the legislation on Wednesday with a 454-2 vote, and the upper house passed it unanimously, 214-0, late Thursday.

India’s once-a-decade census was to be held in 2021 but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

All opposition parties supported the bill and said the delay in its implementation is an injustice to women. They demanded it apply to the next national elections, which are due to be held before May next year.


Indian women protesting one of Modi’s anti-Moslem laws

Under the legislation, the reservation of seats for women would continue for 15 years and could be extended by Parliament. Only women will be allowed to contest 33% of the seats in the elected lower house of Parliament and in state legislatures.

That’s so retarded.

If women are competent, then let them compete. I don’t even think they should be allowed to do that, but if you think that, then do that.

Forcing a system where you have to allow women is beyond the pale and beyond imagination.

Don’t the Indians have all these stories about how vicious and destructive women are?

(Yes, they do.)

What is this supposed to accomplish, other than human suffering?

Women have been the main force protesting Modi’s right-wing agenda.

Why would he want them to have more power?

Is it some kind of… anti-Moslem thing? It has to be that.

But the women are the ones protesting his anti-Moslem legislation! Hindu women are out there protesting it!