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'It is ours, Apna Hai': Sonia Gandhi on women's reservation bill

'It is ours, Apna Hai': Sonia Gandhi on women's reservation bill
NEW DELHI: The Congress' parliamentary party chief Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said the women's reservation bill "is ours", amid speculation that the bill may be tabled in Parliament.
Asked about the bill when she was entering Parliament on Tuesday, Gandhi said, "It is ours, apna hai."

The Congress on Monday said it welcomed the reported move as the party has been raising the demand for long.
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In a post on X, Congress General Secretary (Organisation) K.C. Venugopal said, "In 1989, Rajiv Gandhi ji first introduced this idea for local bodies. Rajiv ji's vision came into force in 1993. In 2010, during the UPA regime led by Sonia Gandhi ji, the Dr. Manmohan Singh government passed the Women Reservation Bill in Rajya Sabha."
"In the last nine and half years, the Modi government took no steps towards this, despite multiple letters from Sonia Gandhi ji, Rahul Gandhi ji and the Congress Party itself. Even though the BJP has delayed this for far too long, it is better late than never that the Bill is finally seeing the light of day," the Congress Rajya Sabha MP said.
It was during the UPA government that the bill was passed in the Rajya Sabha on March 9, 2010. But it was not taken up in the Lok Sabha.
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