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Salute the women who kept the Women’s Reservation Bill alive

For many of us who have been part of the struggle for the Women’s Reservation Bill, it is indeed unfortunate that what we have fought for almost three decades should be reduced to being an instrument to divert attention from a government’s failures. The passage of the Bill at this late stage will make not a jot of difference to the composition of the 18th Lok Sabha. The draft of the Constitution (128th Amendment) Bill makes this clear enough.