In the special session of the Indian Parliament which will be sitting from September 18-22, among the other bills will be a bill for increasing women’s representation in Parliament and state legislatures to 33%
I regard this as a gimmick, for two reasons :
1. In our semi-feudal society in India, most ( not all ) women, particularly in rural areas, are housewives who loyally obey their husbands. Experience has shown that when they get elected to gaon sabhas, zila panchayats or municipal corporations ( due to laws for women’s representation in these bodies ), they really function as the mouthpieces of their husbands, and obey their orders. In other words, the person who is really operating and calling the shots behind the scene is the pradhanpati, panchayatpati, or municipal councillorpati. We also had Rabri Devi as Chief Minister of Bihar, but everyone knew that the real Chief Minister behind the scene was Lalu Yadav.
So if the proposed bill is passed we will have mostly MPpatis and MLApatis behind the women MPs and MLAs who will tell the latter what they should say and do.
2. It is wrong to believe that all women are good, kind, caring, and concerned about the people’s welfare. The truth is that they are usually as selfish, ruthless, vicious, cold blooded, heartless, and callous as the menfolk.
For instance, in Shakespeare’s play ‘Macbeth’, while Macbeth was wavering whether to kill King Duncan or not, Lady Macbeth was adamant that this should be done, and she kept egging him on.
In the Nazi concentration camps the female guards like like Irma Griese, Ilse Koch, Maria Mandl, Dorothea Binz, Herta Bothe etc at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Bergen Belsen, Majdanek, Ravensbruck, etc were as ruthless and cruel towards prisoners as the male guards.
Indira Gandhi was ruthless and power crazy, and for retaining her Prime Ministership after the Allahabad High Court verdict holding her guilty of election malpractices and disqualifying her for 6 years, imposed a fake Emergency in 1975, in which thousands were jailed on false charges and all kinds of atrocities on the people were committed. Parliament was turned into a rubber stamp, and a ‘committed’ judiciary created.
Numerous other such examples can be given e.g. ‘Bloody’ Queen Mary of England, Dowager Empress Cixi of China, the serial killer Aileen Wuornos of America, etc
So women’s representation is just a stunt,which will be of no benefit to the Indian people.
