NEW DELHI, Sept 23 — India’s lower house of parliament passed a bill Wednesday that would more than double the number of women lawmakers in its ranks, following several failed attempts to enact the measure stretching back decades.
Modi, calling himself “delighted” on X, formerly Twitter, thanked lawmakers who voted across party lines and said it would “further boost” women’s empowerment. Just 104 of India’s 788 MPs were women after the last national election, according to government figures — a little over 13 per cent. Mulayam Singh Yadav, at the time the chief minister of India’s most populous state, suggested in 2010 that the bill should not be passed because it would compel men to wolf-whistle at their female colleagues in parliament.
“It’s a complicated process,” Jagdeep S. Chhokar, cofounder of the civil society group Association for Democratic Reforms, told AFP. Several Asian countries have laws mandating a minimum number of women lawmakers in national parliament, including India’s neighbours Nepal and Bangladesh.
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