The central government has issued a gazette notification after President draupadi murmu signed the Women's Reservation Bill. Along with that, women's reservation is now a new law in the country. Nari shakti Vandan Adhinyam became law in india after President draupadi murmu gave her assent to the Women's Reservation Bill. Now as the Act becomes law, 33% seats in the lok sabha and State Assemblies will be reserved for women. However, reservation will come into effect after fresh census and delimitation. In a special session of parliament, the lok sabha and rajya sabha passed the Women's Reservation Bill this month, marking a historic achievement for the indian parliament after shifting its operations to the new parliament building on september 19. Only AIMIM opposed the Women's Reservation Bill, saying it would only benefit upper caste women as there was no reservation for Muslim women representatives. congress also demanded OBC reservation. After the passage in parliament, the congress said that even if the law is signed by the President, it will take a long time to come into effect.
"...the provisions of the Constitution relating to reservation of seats for women in the house of the People, the State assembly and the Legislative Assemblies of the National capital Territory of delhi shall come into force after the exercise of delimitation. The Constitution Act, 2023 shall be carried out for this purpose after the publication of the relevant statistics of the first census taken after the commencement and fifteen years from such commencement. ceases to have effect on the expiry of the period,” it said. Videyaka got 415 votes in the lok sabha, while 2 votes were cast against him. AIMIM chief asaduddin owaisi and Iftikhar had voted against. However, the bill was unanimously approved in the Rajya Sabha.
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