What is your opinion on the Women's Reservation Bill? Also, take into consideration that this leaves only 32.9% seats for open category males.

Manjari Shivahare: Reservation in any form is anathema for a country which gained independence more than sixty years ago with the involvement and active participation of all strata of society, men and women alike. Women today are admitted into all professional institutions, they have broken the glass ceiling in industry, banking, government and other professional fields like the army and even aviation which were traditionally male bastions. India has had a woman prime minister, and currently has a woman President. In such a scenario it is faulty to project women as a helpless force who need to be pushed into legislature. Indian women have the strength, intelligence and power to fight and win elections on their own steam and I personally am against introducing any reservation for them. The examples of feisty women who get elected to village panchayats even in remote and backward area should be motivation enough for other women to forge their destinies in the corridors of power without covert help of this kind.