If we look at the history of India we’ll come across the fact that India have seen just a handful of women leaders at the top positions. Statistically speaking, we’ve only had one female Prime Minister, one female President, zero female vice presidents and sixteen female prime ministers since the independence of India. This clearly shows the depreciatory conditions of Indian politics.

A lot of famous news channels have taken over this topic for various debates in their respective news channels to do their part in trying to persuade the government in approving orders in favour of this bill. However, to no use. Apart from that whether there should be reservation for women has been a heated topic for debates since the news of this bill has been doing the rounds. The lapsed bill in the Parliament of India was proposed to amend the Constitution of India to reserve 33% of all seats in the Lower house of Parliament of India, the Lok Sabha, and in all state legislative assemblies for women. We’re all aware of the patriarchal society that has prevailed in India since time immemorial and there’s not a groundbreaking change that has come through in the recent years. 

Women empowerment is a really important issue in India. In the villages the condition is still so bad that girls are either not allowed to study in schools at all and if they are allowed, they’re stopped as soon as the reach the age of puberty. Some people might find this bizarre but most Indians having the knowledge of the living conditions in different parts of the country are pretty used to it. In these circumstances such situation of the scarcity of women in the government’s Lok Sabha, and all the state legislative assemblies doesn’t come as a surprise.

Although, there’s also the factor that in metropolitan cities women are in no way any less to women hence, making this women reservation bill both a boon and a bane. There’s also the fact that in the present day world most of the millennials are of the mindset that reservation if at all needed, should strictly be provided to the economically backward sections. And only to give the person the leverage to stand on equal grounds. The disparity upon this bill has been going on for years, and although it is lapsed as of now, we’ll have to wait to see if it is ever brought into notice again.