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Women 'largest minority', why not give representation without reservation, asks SC
The Morning Standard
|November 11, 2025
THE Supreme Court on Monday sought to know why women shouldn’t receive representation in the Lok Sabha and state legislative assemblies even without a 33% reservation law.
"Women's presence in Parliament is going down. Why not give women representation even without reservation?," observed a two-judge bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and R Mahadevan while hearing a PIL filed by Dr Jaya Thakur.
This story is from the November 11, 2025 edition of The Morning Standard.
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