Working on its election manifesto for 2017 Punjab assembly polls, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday promised a comprehensive women action plan for women safety and employment.
The party, holding its Punjab Dialogue programme with the women, maintained that it would strengthen the currently defunct state Women Commission, besides imparting self-defense training to the girls at school level for their safety.
AAP, in its ongoing process to identify the issues to be incorporated in its poll manifesto, initiated Punjab Dialogue with women in which growing crime against women in the male-dominated society of Punjab, lack of employment and educational facilities emerged as key concerns of the women.
Punjab Dialogue head and senior journalist Kanwar Sandhu, party’s women wing head Baljinder Kaur and senior party leader Chander Suta Dogra gave patient hearing to their .
Baljinder Kaur said that AAP has taken an initiative to involve women as stakeholders in deciding the agenda of forthcoming state government of AAP in Punjab while all political parties ignore women’s concerns while making their poll document.
“It is perhaps first time when any political party is approaching women to know about their concerns as well as its solutions to be incorporated in its poll manifesto,” she said.