Women should get 50% reservation. However, only one-third reservation to women in Lok Sabha and State legislatures has been allowed. There are concerns on even when this can be implemented; it could well be years after delimitation and Census are completed. This clearly showed that justice was not done by the spirit of the Constitution that promises equal justice, Kerala Women’s Commission chairperson P. Satheedevi has said.
She was speaking after inaugurating a seminar on ‘Constitution and women’s rights’ that was organised by the commission and the Suseela Gopalan Smaraka Sthree Padhavi Niyama Padhana Kendram at Ayyankali hall, here, on Sunday.
Ms. Satheedevi said that despite 75 years of Indian rule, social conditions of equality, as laid down in the Constitution, had not been realised. India has one of the best Constitutions. The Constituent Assembly that drafted the Constitution had 15 women members, three of them from Kerala.
