33% Women Reservation - How Much We Are Going To Achieve-1

During last few days, the Fair Sex has been in news for various reasons. Sometime due to 33%reservation bill for women, or other time for the Rupee Garland of Ms. Mayawati or due to mix reactions over the marriage of Sania Mirza with Shoaib Malik. We can say that we are living in a transition age where many defacto standards for women are cracking. Society is undergoing through a change process. I have termed this change as a 'Process' because it may take time and we may have to wait for a generation or two to reap the fruits of this change.

I would like to comment on 33% reservation bill; which made enough front page stories and editorials in all leading newspapers due to various reasons. The bill attracts both, the followers and the critics. The most interesting fact about this is that the parties, supporting this bill, have not more than 10% female candidates contesting in elections. Apart from this, application of this bill would require again a reservation of seats; we already have few reservations in parliamentary seats. The most important question is that whether the parties would be able to get ample female leaders to represent the constituencies or it will again be a series of dummy candidates)???); as it used to be in Panchayat and Municipal Corporation election. Let me make it clear that I am not questioning the leadership qualities of Indian Women. From Vijaylaxmi Pandit to Indira Gandhi to Sushma Swaraj to Sonia Gandhi to Meera Kumar to Brinda Karat to Mamta Banerjee; we have all the names which have been making glitters in section of powers. But these names are handful. Is there any process or system in the parties which reserves the seats for Women at party position??? At local levels, how many women are holding key positions in political parties??? Women reservation is already there at Municipal Corporation levels but if we analyze, we will found out that most of the female candidates are shadow candidates only. As I mentioned earlier, it is a process, and I think it is always better to start process at root level. Parties first provide a reservation to women at party level to make them eligible enough to represent 33% constituencies of India independently; not as shadow candidates. The current Lok Sabha contains 59 women MPs but most of them are relative to some strong Male leader. What are the parties doing to empower women at local level and party level? All of them are making hoopla about 33% reservations for vote bank but what exactly are they doing to implement this in true sense. I think it would be a better idea to implement this reservation first at party level and then only at parliamentary level; otherwise we may feel that this is something which we are forced to implement rather than a natural implementation.