BJP did nothing to empower women in J&K: Rattan Lal

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 27: Accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Government at the Centre as well as its proxy Government in J&K of being a ‘Jumla Government’, Rattan Lal Gupta, provincial president National Conference (NC) has said that BJP has done nothing at all to empower women in Jammu and Kashmir.
Taking a dig at the Centre, he asserted that the BJP Government has disempowered the people of this Union Territory of even the basic right to elect its representatives to the Legislature, be it the J&K Assembly or even deprived it of participation in the coming election of the President of India. In such a situation the women folk can expect nothing positive for their empowerment from the incumbent BJP Government, he added.
The NC provincial president stated this while addressing a meeting of NC Women Wing, Jammu province held at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhawan Jammu under the chairmanship of Satwant Dogra, president Women Wing NC, Jammu Province, here today.
Gupta said that the NC during its regime in the erstwhile state of J&K headed by Dr Farooq Abdullah as well as later by Omar Abdullah left no stone unturned in fully empowering the women of this region.
The senior NC leader said that it is known to one and all that NC has during every phase of its rule worked relentlessly for providing equal rights to each and every section of the society. He mentioned that it was NC Government which had provided 50 per cent reservation to women of J&K in medical colleges of the erstwhile state.
Earlier while chairing the meeting, Satwant Dogra raised several issues especially related to women folk. She lamented that the women have been the worst sufferers during the ongoing BJP rule at the Centre and proxy rule in J&K.

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