CJI Ramana said that women must be encouraged at all levels in all sectors. The news was buried as the focus was on the results of the election.
I strongly feel that the policy of providing reservation to women needs to be replicated at all levels and in all the states,” Justice Ramana said in a speech delivered in a programme hosted at the Supreme Court to commemorate the first-ever ‘International Day of Women Judges’.
The CJI stated that at an event organised by women advocates in Delhi, he had borrowed from Karl Marx and said, “Women of the world, unite; You have nothing to lose but your chains.”
“That call of mine was sought to be projected as instigating a revolution. If giving women their due share is a revolution, I would be very happy to be branded as a revolutionary. I wholeheartedly welcome such a revolution,” he said.
The CJI said that at present there are four women judges in the apex court, which is the highest ever in its history, and in the near future, India will be witnessing the first-ever female CJI.
