CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury (2R) with Loktantrik Janta Party leader Shared Yadav (4L), CPI general secretary D Raja (R) and others, during eight parties protest agains...
Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD) leader Sharad Yadav (R) with Rashtriya Lok Samata Party chief Upendra Kushwaha (L), HAM chief Jitan Ram Manjhi (2R) and Vikassheel Insan Party (VIP) fou...
Former Union finance minister Yashwant Sinha (C) flanked by Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD) chief Sharad Yadav (L) on right former JDU leaders Pawan Verma and others as they pay tribut...
CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury with CPI's D. Raja, Loktantrik Janata Dal leader Sharad Yadav and CPM's Brinda Karat during a press conference on the issue of alleged viol...
CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury, Sharad Yadav and CPI's D Raja joins JNU students' protest march demanding removal of the university vice-chancellor, at Mandi House in New...
CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury, Sharad Yadav and CPI's D Raja joins JNU students' protest march demanding removal of the university vice-chancellor, at Mandi House in New...
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with left party leaders Sitaram Yechury and D Raja, and Loktantrik Janata Dal party leader Sharad Yadav after the swearing in ceremony of Jharkhand CM ...
Newly sworn-in Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren with his father Sibu Soren, mother Rupi Soren, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Rajast...
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot interacts with social activist Aruna Roy as Loktantrik Janata Dal leader Sharad Yadav and deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot look on during Sh...
RJD leaders Tejashwi Yadav (L) and Raghuvansh Prasad (C) with Loktantrik Janata Dal leader Sharad Yadav during the open session of Rashtriya Janata Dal at Bapu Sabhagar, in Patna.
Senior leader Sharad Yadav with RLD's Ajit Singh and Congress leader Ahmad Patel during a press conference after a meeting of some like-minded opposition parties, in New Delhi.
Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD) chief Sharad Yadav, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, HAM (S) chief Jitan Ram Majhi, Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) chief Upendra Kushwaha with State Congres...
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Ghulam Nabi Azad, Left party leaders D Raja and Sitaram Yechury, Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD) chief Sharad Yadav, DMK MP Tiruchi Siva and others at ...
Loktantrik Janta Dal (LJP) leader Sharad Yadav pays tribute to former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit at her residence, in New Delhi
Loktantrik Janata Dal chief Sharad Yadav arrives to meet with Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD) Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav at Rajendra Institute of Medical Science (RIMS), in Ranchi.
Loktantrik Janata Dal chief Sharad Yadav visits children suffering from Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) at a hospital in Muzaffarpur.
Loktantrik Janata Dal leader Sharad Yadav talks to the media after a meeting to discuss the RJD-led grand alliance's defeat in the Lok Sabha polls, in Patna.
Loktantrik Janata Dal leader Sharad Yadav shows his finger, marked with indelible ink, after casting his vote at a polling station, during the third phase of Lok Sabha polls, in Ma...
Senior Congress leaders Kapil Sibal, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Mallikarjun Kharge, Loktantrik Janata Dal founder Sharad Yadav, and other opposition party leaders addresses a joint press co...
Senior Congress leaders Kapil Sibal, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Mallikarjun Kharge, Loktantrik Janata Dal founder Sharad Yadav, and other opposition party leaders addresses a joint press co...
Nivedita Menon in Kafila:
... the sharp opposition to the Bill cannot simply be dismissed as anti-women. Take for instance, Sharad Yadav’s much reviled comment, derisively referring to “short-haired women” (par-kati mahilaen) who would overrun Parliament. This has been widely attacked for its misogyny, but we do need to see it as expressing a legitimate fear that the composition of parliament would be radically altered overnight, in favour of upper classes and upper castes – the image of women with coiffed short hair drawing upon a common stereotype of westernized and elite women. Now, of course this stereotype is misogynist, or anti-feminst, or both, but as a feminist I do insist that this is not the point here, for no feminist can be under the impression that all the support for women’s reservations comes from strongly anti-patriarchal sources...
...What I fail to understand is why the “quotas within quotas” position is so unacceptable to progressive people. After all, surely the idea of reservations for women in Parliament is not based on the understanding that the biological category called “women” needs to be represented? If we are arguing that the social experience of being positioned as “women” within current economic, cultural and political arrangements is disadvantageous vis-a-vis men, and needs to be reflected in Parliament, then we need to accept that this experience is inflected differently by caste and community – that is, the social experience of being an upper-caste, urban Hindu woman, while definitely shaped by one kind of patriarchy, is nevertheless different from the experience of being an OBC or Muslim woman. Why should not the latter also have representation in Parliament?
Read the full piece at Kafila
Incidentally, Mr Sharad Yadav has also been demanding a quota wihin quota for the women.
