Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 1: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Deputy Chief Minister, Kavinder Gupta today asserted that women have a great role to play in the nation building as the BJP believes in women empowerment and is the front runner in bringing them to the forefront in every field including politics.
The senior BJP leader expressed while addressing a monthly meeting of BJP Mahila Morcha at party Headquarters in Trikuta Nagar, here. The meeting chaired by Kavinder Gupta was convened to discuss the upcoming programmes of the party especially its Women Wing with special focus on party’s weeklong Foundation Day celebrations from 6th April to 14th April.
Speaking on the occasion, Kavinder said that women constitute more than 50 percent population of this nation and play a key role in every field. So far as the functioning of party is concerned the women in its Mahila Morcha Wing will be playing a vital role in the upcoming polls be it the Urban Local Bodies, Panchayat or the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections. He urged the Mahila Morcha members to reach out to women in every nook and corner of the UT at the grass roots level and ensure their cent percent participation in all the upcoming polls.
The former Dy Chief Minister said that BJP stands fully committed to the empowerment of women and in this direction the Union Government has launched a number of schemes specially tailored for women and these have proved quite fruitful especially in Jammu and Kashmir. He said that it is a matter of great pride that out of one crore self help group beneficiaries of Central Government schemes across the country four women SHGs from J&K are among the top 10 performers. He said that this proves the optimum performance of the J&K BJP Mahila Morcha team.
During the meeting Sanjita Dogra, president BJP Mahila Morcha briefed the participants about the functioning of the Morcha and the schedule of upcoming programmes to be organized in the coming days.
Prominent among those who were present include Updesh Andotra, Neha Mahajan, Reema Padha, Neeru Anand, Suman Raina, Ritika Trehan, Anu Gupta, Vaishno Devi, Kunti Jasrotia, Neena Gupta, Anuradha Sharma, Meenkshi and Kamla.
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