Buoyed by women's bill, sexual minorities too seek quota

IANS

TimePublished on Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:52

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Kolkata: With the women's reservation bill getting through the Rajya Sabha hurdle, sexual minority groups in Kolkata are now seeking a similar quota for themselves as well as reservation in other fields such as health, education and employment. Sexual minority groups comprise gays, lesbians, transgenders and bisexuals.

'We also want reservation in parliament and legislative assemblies. As we are transgenders we are deprived of our basic rights and are ill-treated by society. So if there is reservation for our community in parliament, we can raise our issues in the temple of the Indian constitution,' Sujoy Debnath alias Suzane, a transgender, said.

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