No quota within quota in Women Bill: Moily

Exuding confidence that the Women’s  Reservation Bill will sail through in the Lok Sabha in April, Union Law Minister Veerappa  Moily ruled out providing reservation for the Other Backward Castes in the women’s reservation bill.

Interacting with the reporters here on Wednesday, the Law Minister said ``There is no provision in the Constitution to provide reservation for OBCs, particularly in the political arena. Of course there is reservation for employment and education.’’

The census on OBC was  not  recorded  since 1991. So without any  data avaialbale  the cengtre  cannot  take  a decision, Moily added.

Moily stated that no changes would take place in the bill that passed in the Rajya Sabha and shown his full confidence that it would in the Lok Sabha as well in the month of April.

Meanwhile, a delegation of the All India  Mahila  Congress (AIMC)  met Gandhi at her residence and thanked Sonia  Gandhi, the Chairperson of UPA for getting the  Women's Reservation Bill passed  in the Rajya Sabha. Now they  are pressing  for  one-third reservation to for the fairer sex in all Central Government jobs.

In a memorandum submitted to party Chief Sonia Gandhi, the AIMC said necessary directions should be given to the UPA Government to introduce the Bill for 33 per cent women reservation in central government jobs.

"This law will help... empower Indian women socially, economically and politically," Prabha Thakur, President of AIMC, said.

In the memorandum, they also asked Gandhi to set into motion a similar Bill in all Congress-ruled states.