Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Apr 10: National Conference today underlined the indispensability of women’s stake in development and policy making, saying the party has been persistently working towards removing under-representation of women in politics to have policies more attuned to women’s needs.
This was said by Party’s Additional General Secretary Dr Sheikh Mustafa Kamaal while addressing a meeting of women DDC members of Kashmir Province. The meet was convened by the NC Women’s Wing, headed by Advocate Shameema Firdous.
Exhorting the Women DDCs, Kamaal said that it was good to see women be part of the decision making process, saying the measure will help attune the policies and development agenda to the needs and requirements of Women. “I hope that the Women DDC members will utilize the democratic spaces which they have occupied in a positive manner to realize the party’s manifesto by becoming a bridge between people and the party,” he said.
In her address NC Women’s Wing State President Shameema Firdous alluded to the role played by the party in empowering women and removing gender discrimination. She reminded that it was during the successive Governments of NC led by Dr Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah that women were given 33 percent quota in jobs and 50 percent seats were reserved in MBBS. She added that the revolutionary gender neutral voting in terms of adult franchise and sustained gender neutral policies of NC went a long way in securing women their due rights in society.
She alleged that the incumbent ruling Government has reduced itself to a jackboot to push down a new undemocratic model down the throats of the people of Jammu and Kashmir superseding their wishes and aspirations.
She impressed upon the women DDC members to live up to their obligations to ensure evenhanded development of their constituencies. She also extolled them to use the democratic space to alleviate the suffering of women at domestic level as well. She also urged the party’s Women DDCs to take party’s manifesto to every door step.
Later on the occasion, Dr Sheikh Mustafa Kamaal distributed membership coupons among the DDC members.
Besides Provincial President Women’s Wing Er Sabiya Qadri, Spokesperson Imran Nabi Dar, YNC Provincial President Salman Ali Sagar, Provincial Vice President Syed Tauqeer Ahmed, District President Srinagar Peer Afaq Ahmed and others also attended the meet.
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