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Sir, I rise to speak on the success of Chandrayaan. I congratulate Shri S. Somanath and all the scientists of ISRO. Sir, I congratulate Shri S. Somanath and all the scientists of ISRO. I want to mention that there are many scientists from Bengal in the Chandrayaan Project. HON. CHAIRPERSON: There are scientists from Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and other States but they are all Indian scientists. Dada, you know the delicacies of things. When we were watching Chandrayaan’s soft landing on the moon on TV, we saw the Chandrayaan and then suddenly the Prime Minister’s photograph came. The whole country wanted to see the soft landing of Chandrayaan and they saw the Prime Minister’s photograph. Why should this happen? The Mission Chandrayaan is not the result of one particular individual’ effort, it is the result of 50 years of scientific work done by hundreds of scientists throughout the country. Sir, I was very pleased to hear Rajnath Singh ji who spoke on scientific temperament. The man who spoke of scientific temperament in this country was Jawaharlal Nehru. Scientific temperament means, you do not accept anything without experiment and logic. Science is knowledge which is certain and systematic. I am, like Rajnath Singh ji, a former professor of physics. But in my physics, while speaking on Chandrayaan, I do not bring Ram Mandir like Rajnath Singh ji did. There is no connection between the two. Sir, I am not yielding. Sir, I want to say that when somebody in top position says that Ganesha had plastic surgery in the ancient days, I do not accept this. … (Interruptions) When somebody says that Kauravas were born through In Vitro Fertilisation, I do not accept this. When somebody says that in Ramayana, the Pushpak Rath was a discovery by the ancient Indians, I do not accept this. I only accept that which is proved by science. Let me make it very clear. Sir, let me give the background. In 1957, the Soviets sent the Sputnik to the space. In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person to go to space. In 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go to space. It was at that time that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru felt that we must work in the field of space science. In 1962, he set up the INCOSPAR (the Indian National Committee for Space Research) headed by Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, a Cosmic Ray Physicist. Nehru ji died in 1964. In 1969, when Indira Gandhi ji was the Prime Minister, the ISRO was set up. In 1972, when Indira Gandhi ji was still the Prime Minister, the Department of Space was set up. So, whatever is happening today is in continuation to what Dr. Vikram Sarabhai started in 1962. It is his legacy. He unfortunately died in 1971 in Thumba, the place which he liked so much. India got the first success during the launch of Aryabhata which was completely designed and fabricated in India, and launched by a Soviet Kosmos3M rocket from Kapustin Yar on 19th April, 1975. ISRO has successfully launched almost 150 satellites since 1975. ISRO has established major Space systems for communication, television broadcasting, meteorological services, resources monitoring and management, and space-based navigation services. ISRO has its headquarters in Bengaluru. Its activities are spread across various centres. Launch vehicles are built at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram. Satellites are designed and developed at U.R. Rao Satellite Centre, Bengaluru. Integration and launching of satellites and launch vehicles are carried out from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. Development of liquid stages including cryogenic stage, a very cold stage, is done at Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre at Bengaluru. ISRO has carried out 125 spacecraft missions and planned several missions including Gaganyaan and interplanetary missions such as Chandrayaan (LUPEX), Shukrayaan, and Mangalyaan (MOM 2). ISRO, our own organisation, has surpassed NASA in efficiency, resourcefulness, and cost-effectiveness. In 2005, NASA lost the solar mission that cost 550 billion dollars. Now, ISRO has launched a similar solar mission, Aditya L1, at a cost of 55 million dollars only. That is one-tenth of the cost of NASA’s mission. There are four types of satellites sent by ISRO. One is the communications satellite which helps our communications; the second is the observation satellite which takes pictures of the earth; the third is the navigational satellite; and the fourth is the astronomical satellite. These works are going on. What is great about Chandrayaan is that so far, we are using rockets to send satellites around the earth. They are called geo-synchronised satellites, which means they are moving at the same speed as the earth, or the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicles which are placed in space. Now, for the first time, we have gone ahead from a satellite. Our rocket has taken a lander and a rover onto the surface of the moon. We failed in Chandrayaan 2. Our lander had crashlanded. This time there was no crash; the lander landed very softly. For one day, it sent messages from the moon, but they have to be jettisoned. We are all very happy that India has achieved this, but we must have things in perspective. We are talking of a moon, not a moon-landing,but sending a lander onto the moon. There is a propulsion module, and there is a landing module. The propulsion module takes it from the earth’s orbit to the moon’s orbit. Then, the landing module goes to the moon surface. आपको याद डदलाना चाहता ह ं डक सोडवयत नेवषड1957 मेंस्पतुडनक भेजा। हमनेमून में अभी एक साफ्ट लैंडर भेजा। वषड1969 मेंआज से54 साल पहलेNeil Armstrong stepped on the moon as a man. He said, small step for me but a giant leap for the mankind. हम लोग 54 साल पीछेहैं। अभी तक हम मून मेंकोई इंसान को लैंड करा सकें, ऐसी टेक्नोलॉजी नहींबनापाये। इसमेंअच्छा काम कर रहेहैं। यह भी सही हैडक स्पेस प्रोग्राम मेंजोपैसा लगताहै, यह िचडकरना मडुश्कल है। डजतेन्द्र डसंह जी काबजट कटताहै, उनका उतनावेट भी नहीं है, बजट मेन्टेन नहीं कर पातेहैं। गरीब देश में, डेवलडपंग देश मेंस्पेस प्रोग्राम रिना मडुश्कल है। यह आसान बात नहीं है। हमेंबैलेंस करके चलना चाडहए। हमारा जो सैटेलाइट डसस्टम है, इसनेबहुत सडवडस दी है। They predict weather; कब तूफान आ रहा है। They predict crop development. GPS in cars also based on satellite tracking. I want to say that Chandrayaan 3 has demonstrated safe and soft landing on the lunar surface. It has demonstrated rover roving on the moon and conducting in situ scientific experiments. What are the technologies present there? The technologies are laserbased altimeters, velocimeters, inertial measurement to measure gyro-based surface, propulsion system, navigational guidance and control, hazard detection and avoidance, and landing leg mechanism. यह सबइंडडया मेंडेवलपडकयागयाहै। यही हमारेडलए गवडकी बात है। गवडसेबोलो, लैंडर पेलोड है, इसमेंचन्द्रा, चन्द्रशेिर के नाम पर चन्द्रा सरफेस थमोडफडजकल एक्सपेररमेंट है। It is to measure the thermal conductivity and temperature. It contained instruments for lunar seismic activity. Then there is Langmuir Probe to estimate the plasma density and its variations. I am concluding. I am not discussing anything controversial. मझुेबोलनेडदया जाए। मझुे यही कहना हैडक हम आगेबढ़ेहैं, लेडकन बहुत दूर जाना पड़ेगा।. You see, nobody has mentioned Kalpana Chawla. She went by the Columbia Space Shuttle. Her craft exploded in 2003, and she along with seven others died. Today, I pay respect to Kalpana Chawla who was an Indian born astronaut. आज क्याहै, एक साल डकसका पूरा हुआ? फ्रैंक रूडबयो नासा केएक एस्रोनॉट हैं, वह एक साल सेस्पेस मेंहैं। एक साल सेइंसान स्पेस मेंहै। He is set to return to earth this fall after setting the record for the longest single spaceflight by an astronaut. He arrived at the International Space Station on 21st September, 2022 and will return home after 371 days in space. Rubio and his fellow crew members conducted dozens of scientific investigations and technology demonstrations. वर्ष1958 मेंनासा का सेट अप हुआ। उस समय सोववयत यूवनयन आगेथा, उसनेपहले स्पूतवनक भेजा।पहले‘Man in Space’ भेजा। लाइका मर गया, लेवकन वेलनटीना टेरश्ेकोवापहुुंच गया। आप लक्ष्य वसनेमा ऋवतक रोशन का देखेंहोंगे, लाइफ मेंएक लक्ष्य होना चावहए। लक्ष्य यहीहै वक हम देश को आगेबढ़ाएगुं े। देश मेंइन लोगों केबीच जो कुसुंस्कारहै, इसेदूर करगेंे। देश को ववज्ञान और टेक्नोलॉजी मेंआगेलेकर जाएगुं ेतभीहमारा काम पूराहोगा। अभी भीइुंटरनेशनल स्पेस स्टेशन घूम रहा है। एस्रोनॉट उधर ही रहता ह, ै घर जैसा ह, ैएस्रोनॉट उधर ही खाता है। फ्रैंक रूवबयो ने ऐसा वकया है। अभी चीन नेएक इुंटरनेशनल स्पेस स्टेशन बना वदया। Americans have gone. Chinese have gone. So, the Chinese are also in the Space Station now. बहुत सारा काम करनाहै। इुंटरनेशनल स्पेस स्टेशन है, उसमेंनासा, रूस, जापान, यूरोप, कनाडा शावमल है। महोदय, हमको यही कहना हैवक हमारा स्पेस मेंरकैं अभी छठा है। हम वकसकेपीछेह, ैंनासा, रूस, जापान, यूरोप, कनाडा और चीन। चीन बहुत आगेबढ़ गयाहै। इस चचाष मेंमैंजवाहर लाल नेहरू को प्रणाम करता ह ुं, इुंवदरा गाुंधी को प्रणाम करता ह ुं, इन्होंनेस्पेस प्रोग्राम को आगेबढ़ाया। मैंडॉ. साराभाई को प्रणाम करता ह ुं। मैंसतीश धवन और यू.आर. राव को भी प्रणाम करता ह ुं वक इन सब लोगों नेवमलकर स्पेस प्रोग्राम आगेबढ़ाया। इसमेंबीजेपी का कोई कुं रीब्यूशन नहींहै, साइुंवटस्ट्स का कुं रीब्यूशन हैऔर इसी लक्ष्य की ओर आगेबढ़ेंगे। धन्यवाद।

Mahoday, Main do minute bolunga, main sportman hoon. Main football khelta tha. Mujhe Arjun Award mila, Indian Captain ka daitwa mila aur first footballer MP ke roop mein main idhar aaya. Humare Sports MinisterAnurag ji baithe hain. Mujhe yahi kehna hai ki aaj itni khushi ka din hai. Hum chahte hain ki aaj koi ladai na ho aur koi jhamela na ho, aaram se chaliye, aaj koi political baat nahi hogi.

Aaj ek hi baat chalegi ki jo scientist bacche log hain, unko bahut ache se, pyar se hum sab log mil kar rakhein. Pehlebharat varsh mein aisa hua nah hai. Is bar itna acha hua ki hum sabdeh kar, samajh aur seekh rahein hai. Pehle hum log sochte the ki is kaam ko America karega, Russia karega, Japan karega, lekin humare bacche bhi itne sundar hai. Main sach bol raha hoon, haath jor kar bol raha hoon ki un logon hum sabhi mil kar badhai dein. Kisi party ki baat abhi nahi honi chahiye. Sab mil kar karenge. Jaise hum logon ki football team mil kar jeetta hai, vaise he jeetenge. Hum log jeetein bhi hai.

Sir, ek aur baat kehna chahunga, yahan bare bare Minister sahib baithe hain, sabhi ache aadmi hain. Unse vinti hai ki yeh jo team hai, in jitne logonne jo acha kaam kiya hai, un logon ko aap meherbani kar ke Padma Shri dijiye, sabko Padma Shri dijiye. Phir dekhiye kitna sundar chalega. App sabko badhai. Namaskar, aap log ache se rahiye, Jai Hind! Vande Mataram.

जि भी नारी की िाि होिी है, िि हाउस में भार्षण मेंसि उसको देवी िना देिेहैं, लेतकन ग्राउण्ड ररयतलर्टी तिल्क ु ल अलग है। मैं ररक्वेस्र्ट करिीह ूं तक दवे ी नहीं, एर्ट लीस्र्ट उनकोइसूं ान समतझए, वही काफीह।ैरपे करना िूंद कीतजए, वही काफीहै। जि आप अपनीपावर, अपनी िाकि तदखानािूंद कर देंगे, वही काफीहै। मेरा यह क्वश्चे न तकसी सरकार सेनहींहै, तकसीपार्टी सेनहींहै, मैंदेश केपरु ु र्षों सेयह जानना चाहिीह ूं तक जि आप लोगिोलिेहैंतक मैंपावर देिाह ूं, मैंयह क्षमिा दिे ा ह ूं िो आप होिेकौन ह? ैं यह देश इतक्वली मेरा है, यह दत ु नया इतक्वली मेरी है, यह वल्डा इतक्वली मेरा है। आप देनेवालेनहीं ह।ैं ममिा िनजी इस तिल के सपोर्टामेंपहलेभी थीं और अभी भी ह।ैंमैंयह कह ूंगी तक मतहला को ऐसेलाए, ूं तजसकोपावर भी देनीह।ैऐसा नहींहैतक वहपावर उसके नाम सेहो और उसका हसिैंड, उसका भाई, उसका िािा काम करेिथा वह घर मेंरोर्टी िनाए। जो वह करिी थी, वही करिी रह।े मैंयह भी िोलना चाहिी ह ूं तक जि आप लोग िोलिेहैंतक हम लोगों की सरकार नेइिनेपरसेंर्ट तदया है, उसमेंचाहे15 परसेंर्ट हो, 30 परसेंर्ट हो या 31 परसेंर्ट हो िो आप लोग ऐसेदेिेहैंऔर हम लोग ऐसेलेलेिेहैं। आप देकर खश ु हो जािेहैं, हम लोग लेकर खश ु हो जािेहैं। जि देनेऔर लेनेका तसलतसला िूंद हो जाएगा, जि इक्वल हो जाएगा, िि ही नारी को असली सम्मान तमलेगा We are waiting for that day जि आप और हम लोग इक्वल होंगे।

Hon. Chairperson, Sir, I rise to lay on behalf of my Party, All India Trinamool Congress, to speak on women’s reservation, the Nari Shakti Vandan Bill. At the very outset, let us remind ourselves that this is India, a country where poet, Kaifi Azmi, before independence, in 1940, eighty-two years ago, wrote in his poem, ‘Aurat’: “उठ मेरी जान, मेरेसार् ही चलना हैिझुे, जन्नि इक और ह, ैजो मदणकेपहलूमेंनहीं, उसकी आज़ाद रतवश पर भी मचलना हैिझु,े बन के िूफान छलकना है, उबरना हैिझुे, उठ मेरी जान, मेरेसार् ही चलना हैिझुे।” This is in India where Tagore in 1928 wrote in his poem, Shobola – Nari k apon bhagyo joy koribar, keno nahi dibey odhikar, Hey Bidhata. Oh Lord! Why will you not give women the right to determine their own destiny? This is in India where in 1946, when the Constituent Assembly was elected, fifteen seats went to women who had to draft the Constitution. Both the United States and United Kingdom saw lengthy suffragette movements before women were granted the right to vote. India’s founders in April, 1947 agreed to the principle of Universal Adult Suffrage, giving simultaneously the right to vote to women and men. There was never any question of denying women the right to vote while giving it to men. All fifteen members of the Constituent Assembly who were women, rejected the demand for any special women’s reservation on July 18, 1947. Member activist Renuka Ray noted that ‘Vijayalakshmi Pandit has not been selected because she is a woman, nor was sex made a bar to the appointment. It is her proven worth that has been responsible for her appointment to the high office of Ambassador to a land. The demand for a special reservation is an insult to our intelligence and capacity.’ So sure, were our founding mothers that this great land would not deny her women their rightful place based on merit. But alas, it is seventy-five years later and today, it is both my pride and my shame that I stand here as a woman in India’s Parliament speaking on a women’s reservation Bill. It is my pride that I belong to the All India Trinamool Congress, a Party that sends thirty-seven per cent women among its Members to Parliament. It is my chagrin that I belong to Lok Sabha, the House of the People, that on aggregate has only 15 per cent of its members as women, far below the global average of 26.5 per cent and also below the Asian regional average of 21 per cent. As this Government pats itself on its back for its rankings on various global tables, let it also hang its head in disgrace that this same India ranks 140 out of 196 countries in the Inter-Parliamentary Union League’s Table on women’s representation. Within women Parliamentarians, Muslims and Dalits have been consistently underrepresented. From 1952 to 2004, only eight Muslim women were elected to India’s Parliament, Lok Sabha, many of who served multiple terms. In today’s Lok Sabha, the 17th Lok Sabha, there are only two Muslim women Members, both from West Bengal and both from the All India Trinamool Congress. The numbers for male and female turnout in the last General Election were nearly the same. It was 66.7 per cent and 66.8 per cent respectively. But women’s candidature — the number of women who are being put up for elections, which is the first step towards getting elected to Lok Sabha — remained at an abysmal nine per cent up from only seven per cent in 2004. As we started our new innings yesterday in this newly constructed Temple of Democracy, our hon. Prime Minister grandly proclaimed that it seemed that he was ordained to perform many important tasks for this country including this one. And then, with much fanfare, this Government introduced this Bill claiming credit as usual for a groundbreaking move. But wait! What does this Bill really say? Article 334 of the Bill says that the reservation shall come into effect only after delimitation has been undertaken. Delimitation will only be undertaken after the relevant figures for the next census have been published. Rotation of seats for women shall take effect after each subsequent exercise of delimitation. So, what does this mean? In true BJP’s Goebblesian doublespeak style, it means we do not know if and actually when we will have 33 per cent of women sitting in the Lok Sabha. It is because number one, the date of next census is entirely indeterminate and number two, the date of the next delimitation exercise is, therefore, doubly indeterminate. It is also controversial, as my esteemed colleague Kanimozhi from the DMK said. She said according to the data, we will have an increase of zero per cent in the number of seats. From Kerala, it is 26 per cent but a whopping 79 per cent increase will be there both in Madhya Pradesh and in Uttar Pradesh. So, women’s reservation is dependent on two totally indeterminate dates. Can there be a greater jumla? Forget 2024, this may not even be possible in 2029. We are being asked time and again if we support the Women’s Reservation Bill. िर्ृ मूल काूंग्रेस इस तबल को सपोटणकरगे ी या नहीं? BJP’s Members are reaching out to us, asking us to support this Bill wholeheartedly saying “no ifs and no buts प्लीज, पूरा सपोटण कीतजए।” To them, we say very clearly that we not only support Women’s Reservation Bill but in truth it is Mamata Banerjee, India’s only female Chief Minister today, who is the mother of this Bill. She has given birth to the original idea where she has unconditionally sent 37 per cent of women MPs to this Parliament. What have you brought here? What this Government brought here today is not Women’s Reservation Bill. It is Women’s Reservation Rescheduling Bill and should be renamed as such. Its agenda is delay. Its agenda is not reservation. The endless dithering over when there will be the next census, when there will be the next delimitation will only ensure that the urgent need of reservation for women in elections to the Parliament and to the State Legislatures will be indefinitely delayed yet again. Alas, this is not the historic Bill that it is being touted as. It is a sham. For the women and the men, and the girls and the boys who would be the future women and men of India, we had better recognise this, recognise this because it is staring at us in the face. And I also hope that there are sufficient numbers amongst us, the current Members of Parliament, who also recognize this Bill for what it is. It is a sham. The question of women’s reservation requires action, not the placebo of legislatively mandated procrastination. To the Government and to the Ruling Party, I say this. Give us this day our equal rights. We hold up half the sky. Give us at least a third of our earth. Mamata Banerjee and the Trinamool Congress have already walked the talk. We do not need to go on record to show this country that we support the Bill. We have already sent more MPs than what this Bill even envisions. It is you, this Government, this ruling dispensation that needs to go on record. You need to support us, not the other way around. You need to send more than 33 per cent MPs to this Parliament. When this Government wanted to protect cows – I support the move, make no mistake – you did not wait to count the number of cows, you did not wait to see whether the cow was a Jerseyor a Giror a Sahiwal. You just went and built cow shelters. Are we women any less that we have to wait while you count numbers and you draw lines? We do not need any more vandans. We do not need any more vandanas. Thank you very much. What we need is the direct action. Hon. Prime Minister, this is your moment to really show us that मोदी है िो ममुतकन हैं। Implement the reservation Bill immediately based on today’s voters list. Send 33 per cent women to Parliament. Send 33 per cent women to Parliament in 2024 from the BJP the way our Party has done. Support us unreservedly. In conclusion, I can only echo the poet Rehana Roohi’s words. “तदल केबहलानेका सामान न समझा जाए, हमको अब इिना भी आसान न समझा जाए। हम भी लोगों की िरह जीनेका हक माूंगिेहैं, इसको बगावि का ऐलान न समझा जाए।” Thank you very much.

Thank you, Speaker Sir. I stand here to support the Bill which has already been implemented by my Leader Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal. West Bengal is the only State in the country which has a female Chief Minister. I am sorry to say that inspite of Bharatiya Janata Party having their rule in 16 States, at the moment we do not have any women Chief minister there. We are actually delighted to witness the realisation of our leader Mamata Banerjee’s vision where women’s rightful entitlements are being recognised and initiatives are being taken to uphold the vision throughout the country. She passionately advocated for the implementation of women’s reservation all her life, right from 1996 when it was tabled first. She was a member of the Committee headed by the then hon. Member Smt. Geeta Mukherjee trying to argue for the passing of the Bill, possibly keeping in mind the sage Swami Vivekananda who said, “Na Janile Bharat lalona, E Bharat Jage na, Jage na” It is the awakening of women of India which awakes India towards development. Bengal has boldly demonstrated and spearheaded a paradigm shift leading the entire nation towards progress. Notably, we have more women legislators in our Assembly than anywhere else in the country. We have more women Ministers along with Mamata Banerjee. In the Lok Sabha right from 2014, we have been having more than 33 per cent reservation within the Party so to say without any forceful reservation being implemented through any Parliamentary procedure or through the Election Commission. At the moment, in this august House of Lok Sabha, All India Trinamool Congress has nearly 40 per cent of women Members and also in the Rajya Sabha. This is what Smt. Mamata Banerjee has done. She is the only Chief Minister, like I said she has been implementing different programmes for empowering women, for empowering women towards education, for empowering women towards better health and towards better administrative positions. It is ironic to note that despite the seemingly professed affection towards women demonstrated by the NDA alliance today, just six months before the general elections, none of the 16 States ruled by them has a woman Chief minister. What took them so long? Why was not this Bill brought in 2014? Why just before the elections? What are you trying to prove to the people? Is it like a gimmick? Is it like pulling out a rabbit from the hat and placing it before the country? The Government has raised many questions against themselves. Why is delimitation linked with reservation? It is a sinister move and it will have more Members in the Parliament from States which have failed in population control and poor women empowerment. Rather than allocating large sums of money towards construction of structures and altering names of citizens and places, I would urge my colleagues in BJP to prioritise transformation of the mindset. It is imperative that they demonstrate genuine respect for women by aligning their actions with words. Moreover, it is crucial that they take appropriate action against all individuals who are harming and showing disrespect towards women. The golden girls of the country who got us medals have been sexually harassed and they were in Jantar Mantar but the perpetrator sits here today, Shri Brij Bhushan Singh, who has not been brought to book. So, if you are reallyinterested in taking care of women towards betterment and progress, then why do you not take action against the perpetrators? Why do you not take action against those people who have been molesting and killing women in Hathras and in Unnao? Little Asifa was stoned to death in Jammu and the wrestlers, as I said, have been manhandled and molested. I would also like to draw the attention of the House to the plight and the economic non-empowerment of the women labourers who have job cards. They hold the job cards all over the country through the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. There are many women who work in that field but their payment has not been released yet. That is also insulting the women labourers. So are the researchers and the scientific workers of ISRO and IITs who have been denied their salaries. I have requested the hon. Minister in the last Session that they are not getting their stipends. The research workers and the scientists are not getting their stipends. The women researchers of IIT, Kharagpur are not getting their salaries….… Do not shout me down. It is a fact. Go and look into the books. The job card holders are not getting salaries. We know that. In our State, the job card holders who are poor labourers are not getting salaries. In IIT Kharagpur and ISRO, the women scientists, even after sending Chandrayaan, are not being paid their salaries. You have to respect women.… : I would like to quote the Bengali poet known all over the world. Vidrohi Kobi Nazrul said – “Viswey Ja kichu mohan sristi chiro kalyankar, ardhek tar koriyache nari, ardhek tar nor.” The women work very hard in every field. They should be respected. None other than Shri Rabindranath Tagore said “Jadi rakho pasey, sonkot e, songshoi e, sammoti dao jadi kothin o brote” Just like my sister, Shrimati Kanimozhi was saying, we want equal opportunity, we want equal respect, we want to participate in nation-building as equals and not by looking down upon us because we are equals and we can perform provided we get support in education and in health care system. What is the budgetary allocation for women’s health? This Government should tell us and the whole House the extra budgetary allocation for reproductive health of women in the country. The women and their children need it and not the men. So, women require this extra budgetary allocation for their reproductive health. Do this first before bringing the Bill. You have tabled the Bill. This Bill should have come in 2014 when you came to power if you are so much interested in the welfare of women and not before the elections like a gimmick and pulling out a rabbit from the hat. Should I believe this Bill? Should I believe this House? Should I believe this Government or Should I believe their IT Cell Chief? He said in 2010, “Sonia ji is holding the nation to ransom just to fulfil her agenda to get the Women Reservation Bill through. Will her MPs stand up to her?”. Again, he said in 2010, “By pushing the Women Reservation Bill, Congress has created another constituency for itself. This one transcends caste and religion”. He again said, “When we should be talking and moving away from reservations of all kinds, we have a new wave demanding reservation for women”. These have been said by the IT Cell Chief of Bharatiya Janata Party… He again said, “We, in certain States, have reservation for women in the local bodies. Has it helped the cause of women?”. He has questioned whether the women in the local bodies have helped the administration… He has always been maligning everybody in the Opposition. I can lay this on the Table. So, this is from the IT Cell Chief of Bharatiya Janata Party… They are always looking down on women. We are equals. Women are equals. We actually are better than men, I should say, in many respects because we look after the home and children. This Bill was first brought in 2009. It could not be passed at that time for whatever reasons. But My leader, Mamta Banerjee, has implemented 40 per cent reservation of seats for women in All India Trinamool Congress which we are representing here. I would like to quote the famous boxer Cassius Clay, “Catch me if you can.” Catch Mamata Banerjee if you can and make it 40 per cent, not 33 per cent. We get that much respect in Trinamool Congress of being here in rich number and also in the State Assembly where the important portfolios like health, law, empowerment of women, and industry are being held by ladies. The horn is in the hand of a lady. Why you do not respect women and give them their dues, that is the question. According to the report of NCRB, Kolkata registered the least number of rape cases out of 19 major cities in the country. Kolkata has the lowest crime rate against women… This is the data of NCRB. I am not saying this. It shows that 56,000 cases have been there in Uttar Pradesh followed by Rajasthan where 40,000 molestation cases have been there and in Maharashtra, 39,000 and more cases have been there… So, we see molestation against women in all the States ruled by Bharatiya Janata Party…  It is only in West Bengal that women are safe. So, to keep us safe, this should be implemented and not treated as a gimmick. Thank you, Sir