Women's Bill in Lok Sabha before March 16: Govt

Mar 10, 2010, NEW DELHI: The government intends to push through the women's reservation bill in the Lok Sabha before the house adjourns on March 16 for a three-week break, parliamentary affairs minister P K Bansal said here on Wednesday.

Setting to rest speculation about the fate of the contentious bill that gives 33 percent representation to women in the Lok Sabha and state legislatures and was passed by the Rajya Sabha Tuesday, Bansal said the bill would be passed in the lower house before March 16.

"That's our intention," Bansal told.

He also said that the government would consider revoking the suspension of the seven Rajya Sabha MPs if they expressed their regrets to Chairman Hamid Ansari. ...Read More