Women's bill won't let a male be elected to Lok Sabha: Mulayam

Samajwadi Party on Tuesday said not a single male would be elected to the Lok Sabha ten years after the Women's Reservation Bill came into force and advocated quota for the fair sex within political parties.
"Once the bill comes into force, not a single male would be elected to the Lok Sabha after ten years as elected women would not leave their seats, nor the political parties would be in a position to replace them," Samajwadi Party President Mulayam Singh Yadav said addressing a function to mark Ram Manohar Lohia's birth centenary here.

Advocating reservation for women within political parties instead, Yadav said it should be made mandatory for them to give 15 per cent tickets to women.
"If this limit is increased by few more per cent we have no objection over it," he said and termed the legislation passed in the Rajya Sabha as "an international conspiracy to ensure that not a single male member enters the Lok Sabha."
Also dubbing the bill as a conspiracy against Muslims, the SP leader said his party was not against reservation to women, but it was not ready to accept the bill in its present form.
He also alleged that the UPA "forcibly" presented the bill in Parliament to divert people's attention from the price rise issue.

"The country's situation is turning worse, but the central government is not ready to change its policies. The Women Reservation Bill was presented forcibly in the Rajya Sabha only to distract people's attention from price rise issue," he said.