 statement of objects and reasonsdespite repeated attemtps, the parliament so far, failed to provide constitutional guarantee for providing reservation of one third seats to women, both in parliament and in state assemblies, it may be recalled that it was through constitutional amendments, that one thrid _ representation to women was reserved in panchayats at the level of village, block and district as this was practiced successfully, it is logical and reasonable that one third representations are reserved for women in parliament and state assemblies women, as they represent nearly fifty percent of our population, actually deserve 50 per cent, representation in all the elected bodies due to several reasons, women are socially and political'y discriminated gender discrimination and patriarchal attitude of indian society has its roots in indian history it reflects even more in our socio-political life today and that is why when the fourteenth lok sabha has come into existence, we found that it has the least women's representation, comparing to many earlier lok sabhas it may be noted that bills of the same nature were introduced in parliament: several times before let the fourteenth lok sabha take creative, constructive and sympathetic attitude to this problem and take historic decision in favour of reservation of one third seats to women in parliament and state assemblies hence this bill 'new deut; (ck chandrappan, - june 8, 2004 annexure extracts from the constitution of india|                |            |        |            |         |      |              ||----------------|------------|---------|-------------|----------|-------|---------------|| 239aa         | (1)        | <7      | -           | m4       | bc)   | »             || qa)            |           |        |            |         |      |               || special        |            |         |             |          |       |               || provisions     |            |         |             |          |       |               || with           | respect    |         |             |          |       |               || to             | delhi      |         |             |          |       |               || (6)            | the        | total   | number      | of seats | in    | the           || for            | scheduled  | castes, | the         | division | of    | the           || constituencies | (including | the     | basis       | for      | such  | division) and || functioning    | of         | the     | legislative | assembly | shall | be            ||               | '          |        |            | +        |       |               |331 notwithstanding anything in article 81, the president may, if he is of opinion that, the anglo-indian community is not adequately represented in the house of the people, nominate not more than two members of that community to the house of the people |               |     |       ||----------------|------|--------|| representation |      |        || of             | the  | anglo- || indian         |      |        || community      |      |        || in             | the  | house  || of             | the  |        || people        |      |        |333 notwithstanding anything in article 170, the governor of a state may, if he is of opinion that the anglo-indian community needs representation in the legislative assembly of the state and is not adequately represented therein, nominate one member of that community to the assembly |               | +       |       ||----------------|---------|--------|| representation |         |        || of             | the     | anglo- || indian         |         |        || community      |         |        || in             | the     |        || legislative    |         |        || assemblies     | of      |        || the            | states, |        |