Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 4: Shamima Firdous, State President National Conference (JKNC) Women Wing and ex MLA, has asserted that there is a dire need to empower the women especially those living in Jammu and Kashmir who have witnessed the worst period of terror onslaught for over three decades.
She emphasized that in order to empower women, the first and foremost essential in today’s scenario is the implementation of 33 per cent reservation for the weaker sex in the highest temples of democracy i.e. in the Assembly and Parliament.
The NC women wing leader stated this while addressing the party convention held at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhawan to discuss the issues related to women threadbare here today. Satwant Dogra, Provincial President Women Wing, JKNC, Jammu, chaired the convention while NC Provincial President Rattan Lal Gupta and senior NC leader Bimla Luthra were also present on the occasion.
Shamima castigated the Union Govt as well as the J&K Administration not only for having failed to provide employment to the women folk but having plunged the weaker sex into a sea of miseries due to their misrule amid anti-people policies. Today the women across Jammu and Kashmir are facing huge problems and it is the duty of the Government to address their concerns and issues at the earliest, she added.
NC Provincial President Rattan Lal Gupta, in his address, said that the wrong policies of the BJP Govt have dealt a heavy blow to J&K’s prosperity and development bringing it to an all time low. He criticized the Government for imposing Property Tax and carrying out demolition drive. He demanded that Property Tax should be kept in abeyance till the elections are held and the decision should be taken by the people’s representative Govt.
Bimla Luthra said that the progress made during the NC rule in J&K has gone down the drain as the works started by the party including those for women empowerment have been brought to a halt due to politics of deceit played by the BJP with the people.
Satwant Dogra asked women of Jammu and Kashmir to support National Conference in the upcoming elections for equitable development of the UT.
Prominent among others who were present, included Sheikh Bashir Ahmed Provincial Secretary Jammu; Pardeep Bali, Vijay Lakhshmi Datta, Pooja Thakur (DDC Chairperson Kishtwar), Suriya Begum (DDC Bari Brahmana),Shamim Begum (DDC Dansal), Rajni Devi (BDC Chariperson), Dilshad Malik, Rita Gupta and others.
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