{"license":"Free to use with attribution to Vaada Meter (license terms to be finalised)","methodVersion":"1.0","generatedAt":"2026-10-06T07:29:06.464Z","data":{"id":"inc-ls-1991-011","text":"Reserve 30% of seats in local governments and other statutory bodies for women","quote":"30 per cent membership in local governments and other statutory bodies will be reserved for women.","quoteIsExact":false,"quoteLanguage":"en","quoteEnglish":null,"page":null,"sector":"women-children","measurability":"measurable","importance":"headline","deadline":"1996-05-16","deadlineType":"implied","status":"kept","rating":9,"ratingRule":"kept_small_dilution","provisional":false,"confidence":"medium","reason":"The 73rd Amendment reserved at least one-third of panchayat seats and chairperson posts for women, more than 30%. No matching reservation in other statutory bodies was found, so the wider part of the pledge was not met.","evidence":[{"date":"2004-08-25","sourceType":"manifesto","publisher":"All India Congress Committee (Wayback copy)","title":"Salient Points of Previous Manifestos (1991 and 1996 extracts)","url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20040825152122/http://www.aicc.org.in:80/manifesto-1996.htm","quote":"30 per cent membership in local governments and other statutory bodies will be reserved for women.","stance":"context"},{"date":"1993-04-24","sourceType":"other","publisher":"Wikipedia","title":"Panchayati raj in India","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchayati_raj_in_India","quote":"at least one-third of all seats and chairperson posts must be reserved for women","stance":"supports"},{"date":"1996-02-28","sourceType":"budget","publisher":"Ministry of Finance","title":"Interim Budget Speech 1996-97","url":"https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/doc/bspeech/bs199697(I).pdf","quote":"The Amendment ensures that women and other weaker sections of the society will necessarily get adequate representation in the Panchayats.","stance":"supports"}],"tags":["women-reservation","panchayati-raj"],"sensitive":false,"memeLine":null,"review":{"state":"ai_draft","draftedBy":"research-agent","draftedAt":"2026-10-05","reviewedBy":null,"approvedBy":null},"manifestoId":"inc-ls-1991","partyId":"inc","electionId":"ls-1991"}}