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EX prez Pranab Mukherjee calls for early passage of Women's Reservation Bill

Former president Pranab Mukherjee today called for early passage of the Women's Reservation Bill to give adequate representation to women in Parliament and legislative assemblies.<br/><br/>Addressing at an event in New Delhi, to celebrate the 102nd birth anniversary of Justice V R Krishna Iyer, Mr Mukherjee said the proposal remains in suspension and it was time the bill was passed.He said that a country like Britain took decades to give voting rights to women, whereas in India women were granted the right immediately after the enforcement of the Constitution.

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