<div align="justify">DMK MP Kanimozhi on Wednesday made an impassioned plea for passing Women's Reservation Bill, asking how Parliament can make laws without enough representation of the fairer sex.<br /><br />Kanimozhi used the occasion in Rajya Sabha to celebrate 75th anniversary of Quit India movement to raise the issue in the presence of some leaders whi are against the pasaage of the Bill.<br /><br />Building her argument over the stalking incident in Chandigarh where a BJP leader's son is accused, she said 50% of country's population, women, are "treated badly" and even elected representatives are queationing the integrity of the girl.<br /><br />Always, she said whether it is rape or acid attacks, women are questioned why thet were outside home at odd hours. "We should be ashamed of asking girls why they are out," she said.<br /><br />Kanimozhi then went on to touch the Women's Reservation Bill, which was passed in Rajya Sabha amid pandemonium during UPA regime and pending in Lom Sabha since then.<br /><br />"We are not able to pass the Women's Reservation Bill. We saw the struggle here to get it passed. What right the Parliament has to pass laws without enough representation of women (in Parliament)," Kanimozhi as women MPs thumped the desk in supoort.<br /><br />She said one would achieve real freedom when he or she is free from fear and there is "nothing to feel proud if women, Dalits, backward classes and minorities are free from fear," she said.<br /><br />Kanimozhi also said the situation has become such that if one does not conform to a set pattern, they are not considered Indian.<br /><br />"If I cannot speak Hindi, I am not considered an Indian. If I am eating something which somebody things is not right, then I am not an Indian. If I am an atheist, I am not an Indian. Why have we become like this," the MP from Tamil Nadu said in a veiled reference to the high pitch campign run by right wing groups on nationalism.<br /><br />She also lamented that countrymen still experience untouchability and said that in manybstates, including Tamil Nadu, a section of people cannot still eat together.</div>
<div align="justify">DMK MP Kanimozhi on Wednesday made an impassioned plea for passing Women's Reservation Bill, asking how Parliament can make laws without enough representation of the fairer sex.<br /><br />Kanimozhi used the occasion in Rajya Sabha to celebrate 75th anniversary of Quit India movement to raise the issue in the presence of some leaders whi are against the pasaage of the Bill.<br /><br />Building her argument over the stalking incident in Chandigarh where a BJP leader's son is accused, she said 50% of country's population, women, are "treated badly" and even elected representatives are queationing the integrity of the girl.<br /><br />Always, she said whether it is rape or acid attacks, women are questioned why thet were outside home at odd hours. "We should be ashamed of asking girls why they are out," she said.<br /><br />Kanimozhi then went on to touch the Women's Reservation Bill, which was passed in Rajya Sabha amid pandemonium during UPA regime and pending in Lom Sabha since then.<br /><br />"We are not able to pass the Women's Reservation Bill. We saw the struggle here to get it passed. What right the Parliament has to pass laws without enough representation of women (in Parliament)," Kanimozhi as women MPs thumped the desk in supoort.<br /><br />She said one would achieve real freedom when he or she is free from fear and there is "nothing to feel proud if women, Dalits, backward classes and minorities are free from fear," she said.<br /><br />Kanimozhi also said the situation has become such that if one does not conform to a set pattern, they are not considered Indian.<br /><br />"If I cannot speak Hindi, I am not considered an Indian. If I am eating something which somebody things is not right, then I am not an Indian. If I am an atheist, I am not an Indian. Why have we become like this," the MP from Tamil Nadu said in a veiled reference to the high pitch campign run by right wing groups on nationalism.<br /><br />She also lamented that countrymen still experience untouchability and said that in manybstates, including Tamil Nadu, a section of people cannot still eat together.</div>
