{"id":300435,"date":"2018-07-16T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300435"},"modified":"2018-07-16T16:46:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T16:46:58","slug":"congress-president-offers-unconditional-support-on-womens-bill-in-a-letter-to-pm-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-president-offers-unconditional-support-on-womens-bill-in-a-letter-to-pm-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress President offers &#8216;unconditional support&#8217; on women\u2019s bill in\u00a0a letter\u00a0to PM\u00a0Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-300436 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rahul-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-696x702.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul-416x420.jpg 416w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/rahul.jpg 708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/>The Congress will offer \u201cunconditional support\u201d to the women\u2019s reservation bill in the upcoming Monsoon session of Parliament, Congress Party President Rahul Gandhi said on July 16. The bill aims to reserve a third of seats in parliament and legislatures for women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s statement came in the backdrop of Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s remarks on the party, \u201cIf Congress is a party meant for Muslims, it\u2019s up to them. But is it a party meant only for Muslim men? Because you don&#8217;t stand with the Muslim women on issues such as triple talaq and nikah halala.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cOur PM says he\u2019s a crusader for women\u2019s empowerment? Time for him to rise above party politics, walk-his-talk &amp; have the Women\u2019s Reservation Bill passed by Parliament. The Congress offers him its unconditional support,\u201d tweeted Rahul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-300439\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/womens-bill-1-212x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"347\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/womens-bill-1-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/womens-bill-1-297x420.png 297w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/womens-bill-1.png 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-300440\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/womens-bill-2-169x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/womens-bill-2-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/womens-bill-2-236x420.png 236w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/womens-bill-2.png 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Mr Prime Minister, in many of your public rallies you have spoken about your passion for empowering women and involving them more meaningfully in public life. What better way to demonstrate your commitment to the cause of women than by offering your unconditional support to the passage of the Women&#8217;s Reservation Bill? And what better time, than the upcoming session of parliament?&#8221; Rahul tweeted to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. .<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI write to you to request your support to ensure the passage of the women\u2019s reservation bill in the upcoming Monsoon session of Parliament,\u201d Gandhi wrote in his letter to the prime minister.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He also added that his party has already collected over 3.2 million signatures in support of the bill.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress will offer \u201cunconditional support\u201d to the women\u2019s reservation bill in the upcoming Monsoon session of Parliament, Congress Party President Rahul Gandhi said on July 16. The bill aims to reserve a third of seats in parliament and legislatures for women. Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s statement came in the backdrop of Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s remarks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[236,2865,1277,579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300441,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300435\/revisions\/300441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}