Hyderabad, March.3: Opposing the  85th Constitutional Amendment Bill ( Women's Reservation Bill), the All India Forgotten Women's Association (AIFWA) and All India Men' s Association (AIMWA) have demanded all political parties to provide 33 percent tickets to women to contest in the elections.

Speaking to media persons here today, AIFWA president Ms Uma Challa said that the public representatives in a democracy should be those who have everyone' s welfare in mind and not promoting a specific gender, caste or creed. The Women' s Reservations Bill is undemocratic because male citizens will be forced to withdraw or prevented from contesting in reserved constituencies solely because they are male. It takes away the democratic right of 11 crore men to contest in the elections. This is against the fundamental rights of 11 crore men. It violates the right to equality guaranteed under the constitution. She said that passing the women' s Bill was undemocratic because women are not an oppressed class who need their own representatives in the parliament to address their specific issues.