BJP to step up stir for women's quota bill
Hyderabad, July 14 (UNI) The BJP will intensify its agitation to press for introduction of a long-pending bill providing 33 per cent reservation for women in Parliament and State Legislatures, Senior BJP Leader B Susheela said today.
Inaugurating the two-day BJP Mahila Morcha State Executive Meeting here, she charged the Congress-led UPA Government with doing nothing to fulfill its poll promise in the last three years.
The BJP MP from Rajasthan exhorted the party women activists to prepare themselves for a 'Delhi Chalo' programme shortly to exert pressure on the Manmohan Singh Government to deliver the Congress' promise to womenfolk.
BJP State President B Dattatreya gave a call to women to take inspiration from Jhansi Rani Lakshmi Bai who became a martyr fighting against the Britishers and declare a war against the ''anti-people'' Congress Government in the state, which had utterly failed to deliver its promises to the people, including introduction of prohibition in phases.
''Liquor is flowing like water in all the villages at a time when people are finding difficulty in getting drinking water'', he claimed while criticising the Rajasekhara Reddy Government for striving to mobilise Rs 5,000 crore additional revenue from sale of liquor.
Losing all hope, the UPA Government would enact the women's quota bill during its current term, he said adding that the party would fill 33 per cent of its posts from the grassroot level with women.
The party would create a legal cell to provide legal aid to distressed women, he added.
UNI