Kolkata, March 22 -- Thanks to the Mamata Banerjee Government new watering hole laws, now the women in Bengal will go miles in proving that they are no less than men inside the pubs. This, but for a few eyebrows being raised.
The Bengal Government's new legislation allowing women to work in hostelry has evoked mixed response in the civil society and political circles. While those in the Trinamool Congress have said that this would go miles in ensuring "emancipation for women in the State" others including the Opposition parties said it would bring more miseries to them and had been done to attract more customers including the TMC goons.
The Government had on Wednesday proposed a new Bill lifting a century old ban on women working in bars....