The Nautanki called ‘33.33%’

Just wrote to one of my friends, thought you too should know this.

Let me narrate a very funny incident. Last month, I was on a TV chatshow with politicians Motamma and Pramila Nesargi. Topic was women’s reservation bill. I argued that it is never going to be implemented successfully unless a lot of pre-launch work is done. I suggested that politicians like them should turn into activists and ask the female voters to elect more female representatives instead of begging for reservation. I asked them to influence their parties to issue more tickets to female candidates prior to the bill. They said their parties are very much into this. I had told them, it’s not going to be the way it looks. They seemed too enthusiastic then. Ironically, Motamma has failed to get tickets to contest elections. one of the BJP candidates in Puttur, Shakuntala Shetty, has been denied tickets although with a winning record.  Now that the reservation bill has been put on table once again, our condition is that the Minister of law has to be protected by a team of lady MPs. SP people openly defy the bill, with Amar singh in the forefront. For a change it’s nice to see pictures of Sushma Swaraj and Brinda karat holding hands!! Male MPs are openly showing their Ire. My prediction is that once again, it will face lot of negative reaction. let’s see what happens!!