
New Delhi: Hearing was held in the Supreme Court today on the petition demanding immediate implementation of 33 percent women reservation in Parliament and Assembly elections. On the petition of Congress leader Jaya Thakur, Supreme Court said that it is not so easy to implement immediately, many processes have to be completed for this.
The Congress leader’s petition demanded that reservation be implemented as soon as possible without waiting for delimitation. The court said on this that before any reservation many procedures have to be followed. After giving the response, the court postponed the hearing till November 22.
The Supreme Court, while hearing the petition, said it is ‘very difficult’ to strike down that part of the Women’s Reservation Act which states that it will be implemented after the census.
A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and S V N Bhatti also refused to issue notice on the Congress leader Jaya Thakur’s petition. In the petition, there was a demand for immediate implementation of the Nari Shakti Vandan Act. The bench said that a petition is already pending before the court on this issue and it will hear Thakur’s petition along with that on November 22.
Congress leader’s Advocate Vikas Singh, in his plea, said that it is understandable that census is required for data collection to give reservation to backward classes, but one wonders where the question of census arises in the case of women’s reservation. Singh said the part of the law that says it will be implemented after the census is arbitrary and should be struck down.
On this, the bench said that it would be very difficult for the court to do so, because there are so many issues involved. Seats have to be reserved in advance and there are many other things too.