Women's reservation bill

Recently the bill proposing 33% reservation for women in the parliament and in state assemblies was passed in the upper house "Rajya sabha" amidst lot of hue and cry from some of the political parties. There is some criticism that women can not handle the bonhomie of politics and will easily succumb to the inherent pressures and hence will be ineffective. Well, looking back at the track record of our male politicians in the last 63 years, I believe that women can certainly do better than male politicians. Even if they turn out to be worse than their male counter parts it doesn't get bad than the current situation. Then what harm is there in giving them a chance to take a shot at politics? At least women can get to make their presence in terms of numbers. To put it crassly, at least the glam quotient of politics would increase if this bill becomes an act. :-)

But if we go by the track record of general reservation over the past few decades it is evident that eventhough it has uplifted a lot of people from socially and economically deprived sections of the society, there's been a gross misuse of this. This time if we make sure to minimise the misuse part to a bare minimum then this bill would certainly be a landmark in the evolution of Indian democracy. For that to happen there is one more test in the lower house of parliament which I am eagerly waiting for.