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‘A gift wrapped in barbed wire’: Tharoor slams Center for linking women’s quota to delimitation bill

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'A gift wrapped in barbed wire': Tharoor slams Center for linking women's quota to delimitation bill

New Delhi: Senior Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor on Friday termed the proposed delimitation exercise as “political demonetisation” and criticized the Center for linking implementation of women’s reservation to expansion of Parliament and re-delimitation of constituencies based on census.Participating in a debate in the Lok Sabha on three bills related to the Women’s Reservation Act Amendment … Read more

‘Political demonetisation’: Tharoor slams Center for linking women’s reservation to delimitation

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'Political demonetisation': Tharoor slams Center for linking women's reservation to delimitation

New Delhi: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor Thursday criticized the government for linking women’s reservation to delimitation, saying the law should be implemented immediately and not linked to the delimitation process. He also called for detailed and broader discussions rather than being rushed through a short period of time.Tharoor told reporters outside the Assembly House that … Read more

‘Ability to win is a factor’: Shashi Tharoor worries over low number of women in Kerala war

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'Ability to win is a factor': Shashi Tharoor worries over low number of women in Kerala war

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor (file photo) New Delhi: Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor On Friday, when asked about colleague Shama Mohammad’s complaint about the meager number of votes allotted to women candidates in the Kerala assembly elections, she came out strongly in favor of increasing women’s representation in elections.Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha MP acknowledged the under-representation of … Read more