women reservation bill explain by dhruv rathee #shorts #dhruvrathee

In December 1946, the Constituent Assembly was formed to write the country's new constitution. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar was the chairman of the drafting committee. Of the 299 members of this Constituent Assembly, only 15 were women. Some of the most famous names among them are Sarojini Naidu, Sucheta Kripalani, Vijay Lakshmi Pandit, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, and Amu Swaminathan.

You will be surprised to know that a debate took place at that time on women's reservation, and all these women opposed it. It was not that these women felt that women were unfit to become politicians, but their argument was that there was no need to give any special consideration to women. While discussing another matter in December 1946, Hansa Mehta had said, "Our women's

organization is not demanding any reserved seats, quotas, or separate electorates. Our demand is that women should get social, economic, and political justice and equality."