Karnataka - Madikeri   

Mahila Morcha to organise women against misrule'

Staff Correspondent

Plan to create awareness on social evils and help women secure their rights

MADIKERI: The State Bharatiya Janata Party Mahila Morcha will organise women in rural areas against the coalition "misrule" in the State and generate awareness among them to fight social evils and enable them to secure their rights, the morcha president, Srilata Poornachandra, said here on Monday.

She told presspersons here that as a result of the infighting in the Congress and the Janata Dal (S), the administrative machinery had come to a stand still. Corruption and problems on various fronts were the gifts of the coalition Government to its people.

Morcha members would create awareness on the Government's mal-administration by touring the villages, she said.

Women ought to be given 50 per cent reservation in all spheres of public life. Unfortunately the proposal to provide 33 per cent reservation to women itself had not come through, she said. When a country such as Afghanistan could think of having 50 per cent reservation for women in public life, why should women in this country lag behind? Representation to women in politics in India was just 8.3 per cent while it was higher at 21.3 per cent in Pakistan, she said.

Convention

The president of the Kodagu district BJP, S.G. Medappa, announced that several party leaders and workers from Kodagu would take part in the proposed October 28 convention at the Palace Grounds in Bangalore to protest against the "misdeeds" of the Government. Over five lakh party cadres were expected to gather for the event to be attended by leaders such as L.K. Advani and Narendra Modi.

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