The woman’s reservation bill is making all the news for the last couple of days. Most of the media is in full support of the bill. Even most politicians who oppose the bill are not directly voicing their opposition.

We have journalists and celebrities like Shabana Azmi coming out in full support of the bill calling it one of the most progressive bills in Indian history.

Further, some politicians are trying to leverage this bill to get some sort of reservation for their own communities (read caste and religion).

According to BBC correspondent Southik Biswas’s blog, during the making of the Indian Constitution, the only person who supported reserving seats for woman was a man.

He further goes on to mention in his blog that women railed against reservations. Constituent Assembly member Renuka Roy said Indian women “have been fundamentally opposed to special privileges and reservations”. Her colleague Hansa Mehta rejected reservations, saying what women wanted was “social justice, economic justice and political justice”.

Even today, several women are opposed to the bill. Priya Ramankutty on an online community commented that “most women have mixed feelings on the subject of reservation. The women who have worked hard to make their way up in a so-called man’s world feel that reservation will deprive them of the opportunity to compete with men on equal ground and isn’t that what we have been clamoring all along for equal opportunities not reservation.”

She further goes on to say “on second thoughts, women who do end up using reservation will turn out to be the wives, daughters, sisters, moms, aunts, nieces of Corrupt Politicians in backward areas. These women are just hand puppets acting on the behest of their men to protect their vested political interests. So I highly doubt if its the women who ultimately benefit from the reservation? And do we really want such women who need the crutches of reservation / quota system in the public arena participating in affairs of national interest is the million dollar question.”

I don’t mind 100% women in parliament, but they should be there because they are the best people for the job NOT there due to some quota or reservation. We are finding every little way to divide our country. Today, it’s woman’s reservation, tomorrow every other community is going to stand up and divide the country based on gender, color, religion, caste and god knows what.

Very soon, we’ll see people getting jobs because of their caste, religion, gender rather than ability. Is this the country that we dreamed about, where ability, productivity and hard work gets penalized? I don’t think so. This is not the country we desire, we want a country that does away with reservations of all kinds. There should be absolutely no reservations.

Furthermore, I think this woman’s reservation bill is disrespectful to women. The majority of men in parliament are having their way, they are quietly saying in their minds, “We told you so, you couldn’t compete in the so called man’s world. So we are giving you a reservation because you are weak.”

Women are not weak, they are way stronger than men. I am absolutely certain a day will come when there will be more than 50% women in parliament (without the reservation) and they will all be democratically elected and will be there based on ability NOT some reservation or quota system. It’s no wonder that most people opposing the Woman’s reservation bill are women.

I think, it’s time our politicians stopped dividing the country based on caste, religion or gender. It’s time for them to focus on real issues like infrastructure, development, creating more jobs by promoting entrepreneurship, law and order, terrorism, citizen’s rights and education at the grass roots level.

Instead, our politicians are busy dividing the country when we have real issues to solve.

It’s time for real democracy. It’s time for us to stand up and say “enough is enough!”

Vinil Ramdev is an entrepreneur, business coach and author of the ebook “How to write a business plan for astonishing results? In just 3 days!” He is also founder of StartupGrowthExpert.com

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