Opposition Parties Pen Joint Letter Seeking All-Party Meet on Roadmap for Women’s Reservation Act
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New Delhi: Opposition members of the INDIA alliance have signed a letter written by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge to union minister for parliamentary affairs Kiren Rijiju seeking an all-party meeting to be convened to discuss the implementation of the Women’s Reservation Act, The Wire has learnt. In the letter, opposition parties have reiterated their demand for the all-party meeting to be held after the upcoming assembly elections, to discuss proposed amendments to the Act, and said that “to make the meeting more productive, it is necessary for the Government to circulate a note detailing what exactly is being proposed.”
The letter by Kharge, who is also the leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha, has been signed by members of the opposition including from the Samajwadi Party, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam,........
