The Congress/INDIA government at the centre will provide 50 percent reservation for women in the central government jobs, president of the All India Mahila Congress Alka Lamba said on Thursday. Lamba was here for the charge-taking ceremony of Chandigarh Pradesh Congress president Nandita Hooda.

 
She said while the Congress manifesto has touched all sections of people across the country, it has special provisions for women under ‘Naari Nyay’ (justice for women). Besides 50 percent reservation in government jobs, one woman in every poor family across the country will get Rs one lakh in her bank account every year. She pointed out, this will help the entire family in meeting its financial needs.

The Mahila Congress president alleged that the last ten years of the Modi rule had been bad for the country, but these were worse for the women in particular.  She pointed out, how rape accused were patronized and protected under the BJP rule. She referred to the protest by women Olympians and the way the Modi government mercilessly treated them and protected the accused.

Speaking on the occasion, former union minister and the INDIA candidate from Chandigarh parliamentary constituency Manish Tewari expressed his gratitude to the leaders and workers of the Mahila Congress for the robust and active support they have been providing to his campaign.

He said the Congress had a tradition and history of working for the welfare and upliftment of women. He pointed out, that it was late Rajiv Gandhi who introduced reservation for women in local bodies which is finally moving towards reservation for women in legislative bodies like the parliament and state assemblies.

 
Works done on scams during Cong regime while BJP believes in schemes: Sanjay Tandon

Hitting out at the Congress party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Sanjay Tandon on Thursday said that from 2004 to 2014, in the Congress government, work was being done on scams and not on schemes, whereas in the last ten years of the tenure of the country's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, work was done only on schemes.

After launching Sankalp Patra of Modi's guarantee in Chandigarh, Tandon highlighted the main points and said that soon based on the suggestions of the people, Chandigarh BJP's Sankalp Patar will also be prepared and released. For this, suggestions are being sought from the residents of Chandigarh Lok Sabha constituency and representatives of major organisations. On the basis of these suggestions, it will be released. City BJP President Jitender Pal Malhotra was also present on the occasion.

Tandon said the BJP is once again moving towards its target of crossing 400 because from 2004 to 2014 there was only talk of scam in the country, whereas from 2014 to 2024 there was only talk of schemes.  It resulted in progress and public interest in the country.

“Sankalp Patar has been prepared with the suggestions of 15 lakh people, which will change the condition and direction of India in the next five years, because some important things are visible in it, if we go deep into it, the complete roadmap of the country's progress. It will be in front. It has a social network segment, physical segment and focus on digital segment,” he added.

Tandon said PM Narendra Modi wants to see India as a global sector. Among the benefits of Global Engineering, Quality and Quantity, Ayushman Yojana, every category of people above 70 years of age will also get the benefit of medical facilities up to Rs 5 lakh. There are many such schemes.