New Drama on Women's Day

Happy Women's day to everybody.

I am vocal about equality and oppose quota in any form. I was quite unhappy when 30 percent quota was applied to engineering students in Odisha in 1995. I would prefer 50 percent girls in engineering colege in stead of 33 percent, but that should be based on their merit. Simillarly I would like to see 50 percent women in Parliament instead of 30 percent, but it should be based on their merit. So I did not like the idea of reservation.

However being an anti-Lalu and anti-Mulayam entity I somehow wanted the ladies reservation bill to pass through the parliament though it is against my personal taste. Manmohan Singh told he is going to introduce the bill on 8th March 2010 on women's day. BJP, Left front, DMK, BJD were ready to support the bill. So congress has the required numbers. So I thought congress will be able to make the historic decision (blunder?). I was busy on the day with my usual work and did not get time to browse through the news, even skipped lunch because of hectic schedule and have not had any food till 7:30 PM. I rushed to cafeteria to grab some food before the next meeting starts, and watching TV for a the news.

I thought the women's bill would have passed in the parliament, and made an history. Hey what I saw was totally different. Congress was no different than Lalu-Mulayam. I started having respect for the Yadav duos. They at least speak what they preach. Not like the congress (even BJP) who speaks a different language and practices a different game.