Sonia Gandhi, chair of India's governing party, addressed nearly 5,000 women at a Women's Empowerment Conference in Kashmir on Monday.
The villagers of Murmadi, tehsil Lakhni, have unanimously decided to have an all-women 13-member gram panchayat. Even the sarpanch and deputy sarpanch will be elected by consensus of the newly-elected members.
Having suffered hugely from years of relentless violence, women in Jammu and Kashmir are fast taking to politics to fight for their rights.
At its first annual convention, the Indian Muslim Women's Movement or the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) reinforced its campaign for the social, economic, political, civil, legal and religious rights of Muslims in India.
Indicating a change in its stand on reservation for women in Assemblies and Parliament, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday said it was ready to back the Election Commission’s proposal of 33 per cent reservation for women in allotment of party ticket.
In one voice and with a thunderous applause, the national council of the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday approved an amendment to the party constitution that will give its women workers 33 per cent reservation right from the “mandal” to all levels.
With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi having made repeated assertions about the Congress’ commitment to bringing about 33% reservation for women, the government is set to table the contentious Bill in Parliament during the on-going Budget session.
The first meeting of the key Parliamentary committee on Women's Reservation Bill today was a stormy affair with the supporters and opponents of the measure indulging in verbal duels over the contentious issue.