End of 27-year wait: Rajya Sabha passes Women's Reservation Bill with 215 votes
Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal tabled the historic bill in the upper house and called it “a bill towards women empowerment.” BJP president JP Nadda and Congress party president Mallikarjun Kharge engaged in a heated argument in Rajya Sabha over the implementation of the bill. The reservation bill was passed in Lok Sabha on Wednesday with an overwhelming majority, 27 years after it was first presented in the parliament.