Women's quota splits BJP, many want to vote against it

Sushma, Jaitley and Rajnath in damage control mode, to issue whip

PTI | March 11, 2010



Trouble is brewing for the Women's Reservation Bill with a section of BJP MPs in Lok Sabha expressing their opposition to the measure and threatening to vote against it and the party today decided to crack on the dissenters by issuing a whip to them to back it.

The BJP top brass swung into damage control and decided to issue a whip to its MPs to make them toe the party line.

Facing rebellion, top party leaders including the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley and former party chief Rajnath Singh met the dissenting MPs this morning and sought to allay their fears over the bill which seeks to reserve one third of the seats in Lok Sabha and state assemblies for women and will unseat that number of men.

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