‘Going to fight for implementation of Women’s Reservation’: Sonia Gandhi

Addressing the meeting, Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) Chairperson Sonia Gandhi said, “The Women’s Reservation Bill has been passed… but it still has a long way to come. And when the bill will be implemented is our question… We are going to fight for it till we don’t get it…”

Sonia Gandhi asserted that the INDIA alliance would fight for the implementation of the Women’s Reservation Bill passed recently by Parliament.

Sonia Gandhi also asserted that it was the late Rajiv Gandhi who brought reservation for women in Panchayati Raj, the local self-governments which spurred an entirely new phenomenon of women leadership at the grassroots level.

“It was a vital stepping stone towards the reservation on a similar one thirds of seats in the legislative bodies which the Congress pioneered in Parliament and outside. Now the Women’s Reservation Bill has finally been passed due to “our relentless persistence and efforts; of all of us, not just the Congress.” However, “as we all know it is still a long way to come,” Sonia Gandhi said.