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sonia gandhiCongress President Sonia Gandhi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him to get Women’s Reservation Bill passed in the Lok Sabha.

Mrs Gandhi said the Rajya Sabha had passed the bill in march 2010 and since then it is languishing in the lower house for one reason or another.

She said, Congress party has always and will continue to support the legislation for the empowerment of women.

Sonia Gandhi said it was the Congress party and its late leader Rajiv Gandhi who first mooted the provision for reservation for women in Panchyats and Nagar Palikas in the Constitution Amendment Bills.

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