NEW DELHI: Congress on Sunday
discounted any possibility of modification or dilution in the women's quota bill
and said the government was determined to pass it in its present form in the Lok
Sabha shortly.
"Congress is dead serious and looks forward to making it a reality in the near
future," party spokesman Abhishek Singhvi said. He added that there was no scope
for speculation about the future of the legislation.
Law minister Veerappa Moily was more specific in promising to ensure the bill's
passage in Lok Sabha during the current budget session. There is neither a
proposal nor any thinking in the UPA government to amend the bill, Moily told
TOI.
Apart from the power of Parliament to effect changes in the bill, the government
had no intention to change the proposed legislation intending to reserve 33% of
seats in Lok Sabha and assemblies for women, Moily said.
"We would like to pass it in the present session; we are confident," he later
told a TV channel. Dismissing opposition to the legislation from the SP and RJD,
Congress said any epochal change could not happen without some resistance. "Any
progressive change does have an initial unsettling effect, but inevitably people
get reconciled to such changes," another party spokesman Manish Tiwari said.
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