Women's bill to be taken up on Dec. 21

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, DEC. 15. The Women's Reservation Bill, seeking to give 33 per cent of all Lok Sabha and State Assembly seats to women, is expected to be taken up for consideration and passing in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, December 21.

A formal announcement was made in the House today that it would come up next week.

Mr. Mahajan has already issued a whip to his party MPs and has written to leaders of allies and supporting parties to issue whips to ensure that the bill gets the requisite majority.

Though trouble is expected, a glimpse of this could be had when the announcement was made, the Government calculation is that if parties who have said they would support the bill - the BJP and its NDA allies, the TDP, the Congress and the Left parties - do what they have said, the bill will get the two- thirds majority required for all Constitution amendment bills.

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