The Mahila Morcha of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is working on a plan to appoint at least 10 women party workers on every polling booth in next year’s general elections, said the National President of Mahila Morcha, Vijaya Rahatkar while interacting with newsmen here on Thursday. She said that the U’khand unit of the Mahila Morcha is prepared to deploy 10 workers on all the 10800 polling booths of the State. Rahatkar claimed that good number of tickets would be allotted by BJP to women in next year’s parliamentary poll. She claimed that the out of 12 Crore members of BJP, the number of women workers is 3 Crores.
Heaping praises on the Narendra Modi Govt, Rahatkar said that 70 % of the beneficiaries in the Mudra loan scheme are women which has gone a long way in empowering women in the country. She claimed that more than 5 Crore cooking gas connections have been provided to poor women under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojna.
This step has wiped the tears of the poor women folks in true sense and would ensure a healthy lifestyle to them, she added.
The National President of the Mahila Morcha said that the Centre’ s decision to bring a bill on Triple Talaq has provided a hope to eight Crore Muslim women in the country. She welcomed the decision of Triple Talaq crusaders Nida Khan and Sayara Bano to join BJP. In response to a question, she said that the Morcha is in favour of providing 33% reservation to women at all levels. She however blamed the congress and other parties for not being serious on the issue.
The BJP leader gave example of Triple Talaq Bill which was blocked in the Rajya Sabha by the opposition parties. She expressed concern on rising cases of violence against women but quickly added that the Govt has taken measures like change in POCSO for ensuring death penalty for child rapists.
The BJP leader said that price rise is no issue in current scenario where the prices are hovering around those of 2014.