Women can now contribute more significantly to nation-building: Anurag Thakur hails passage of quota Bill

Praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the women’s reservation Bill cleared his last legislative hurdle in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, Union Minister Anurag said he has done in 9 years what others couldn’t do in three decades.

After its passage in the Lok Sabha with a brute majority on Wednesday, the ‘Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam’ aced the legislative test in the Upper House on Thursday, with 214 members voting in support and none against.