Hyderabad, March.3: Opposing the  85th Constitutional Amendment Bill ( Women's Reservation Bill), the All India Forgotten Women's Association (AIFWA) and All India Men' s Association (AIMWA) have demanded all political parties to provide 33 percent tickets to women to contest in the elections.

Speaking to media persons here today, AIFWA president Ms Uma Challa said that the public representatives in a democracy should be those who have everyone' s welfare in mind and not promoting a specific gender, caste or creed. The Women' s Reservations Bill is undemocratic because male citizens will be forced to withdraw or prevented from contesting in reserved constituencies solely because they are male. It takes away the democratic right of 11 crore men to contest in the elections. This is against the fundamental rights of 11 crore men. It violates the right to equality guaranteed under the constitution. She said that passing the women' s Bill was undemocratic because women are not an oppressed class who need their own representatives in the parliament to address their specific issues.          

She said that passing the Bill would create a bias in the minds of voters and cause them to start voting or stop voting on the bias of gender and not based on publicized agendas of parties, related to all citizens. Advocates of the Bill are insisting on needlessly penalizing citizens of a democratic country, instead of taking action against political parties which are preventing women from or failing to provide opportunities for women to contest in the elections.

She demanded  the  Central government to ensure 33 percent representation by women in the Rajya Sabha, and then increate it to 50 percent before tampering with the constitution and making reservations to increase women' s representations in the Lok Sabha. She demanded the government to set up National Commission for Men for conducting  studies on men's issues and for formulating measures, policies and laws for welfare of men and set up Men's welfare Ministry with Cabinet Rank.

She demanded the government to amend the people' s Representation Act to include " all recognized political Parties to reserve 33 percent for women with a staggered time frame  of 33 % in year 1 to zero year 30 and amend Article 15(3) by deleting the word " women". She also demanded  the center to amend 51 (E) to include the word " men", implement women's reservation in judiciary, bureaucracy, defence and local bodies in the states and union territories.