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Parliament passes women’s reservation bill

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New Delhi, Sep 21: A watershed bill to reserve one-third of seats in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies for women received the Parliamentary nod on Thursday as the Rajya Sabha voted unanimously in favour of it.
Unlike the Lok Sabha, where two of the 456 MPs present in the House had voted against the bill, all the 214 lawmakers present in the Rajya Sabha voted in its favour on Thursday.
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