New Delhi, March 09: RJD chief Lalu Prasad, who has stiffly resisted the women’s reservation bill, today said he was not against the proposed legislation but would like to see women from poor sections of society benefit from it.
“I am not against the women’s bill as being portrayed by some political parties and the media. All I say is that women from poor sections of society should be the ones to benefit from such reservation,” Prasad said here.
He was addressing party workers as part of an exercise to galvanise strength for local body elections next year.
The RJD president said that he and leaders like Mulayam Singh Yadav opposed the Bill in Parliament as they wanted to prevent ‘elite’ women from taking advantage of reservation and occupying important posts.
——PTI