Even as the BJP is yet to release its manifesto, its chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi seems to have her goals set for the national Capital. While her ideas, sources said, are being incorporated in the final draft of the manifesto, Bedi announced her 25-point action plan to ensure women’s security in the city. Ironically, her agenda also includes conducting Jansabhas by MlA to get feedback from people — an idea being pitched by the rival AAP.
The former IPS officer on Wednesday took to micro-blogging website Twitter to share her comprehensive 25-point action plan wherein she outlined preventive measures, corrective actions and regular reviews. She said that the agenda involved her 6Ps — people, police, prosecution, politician, press and prison.
“The Government will work in collaboration with People- Parents, Principals in school, Preachers along with the Police, Prosecution, Prisons, Press, Politicians,” Bedi said. Her 6P plan underlines the role of parents and principals in bringing equality among girls and boys alike, while emphasising on the role of religious preachers in sending out the “right messages”.
“Preachers from all religions also play an important role. They have to use the right messages for a woman’s dignity,” the former top cop said. She has also promised to ensure a more efficient functioning of existing women helpline, which she wants to keep with the “Chief Minister’s Office”.
laying the emphasis on community policing, her action plan includes increasing ‘smart patrolling’ in vulnerable areas and ladies-special DTC buses, issuing safety kits, including pepper spray and whistles to women and widely publicising punishments for crime against women.
Interestingly, she has also stressed on the concept of Jansabha, which her friend-turned-foe Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal has been propagating. “Regular outreach within constituency by each MlA-jansabhas with people to monitor progress and get feedback,” Bedi tweeted on Wednesday.
Bedi said she looks forward to participation from all to make her 25-point agenda successful in keeping women safe. As poll campaign, she is heavily relying upon her administrative experience of over three decades as an IPS officer to deliver on her promise of strong governance ensuring women security.
Bedi has also sought to reach out to NGOs seeking their assistance in ensuring women’s security and sanitation and said that those working in the field would be duly respected.
“They will get all possible help from the Government, whatever grants they need, we will give them. We will re-look any rule or bureaucracy coming in the way,” Bedi, who runs two NGOs herself, said. Taking a cue from PM Modi’s popular monthly radio talk, ‘Mann Ki Baat’, she has proposed to start a series of ‘Dilli ki Baat’ which would broadcast regular analysis of crimes against women.