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Congress to give due representation to women in next Assembly polls

Staff Reporter

Sonia to hear grievances of Mahila Congress members in March "If Women's Reservation Bill not passed now, it will be done when Congress gets a majority"

PUDUCHERRY: The Congress will give due representation to women workers in the next Assembly elections in the Union Territory, said Kamalashi Sharma, general secretary of the Mahila Congress.

She said that the party was in the process of grooming women workers to take responsibilities if elected to the Assembly, she told reporters here on Tuesday.Asked about the non-representation of women in the Assembly, she said the party lay more emphasis on winning chances of the candidates as well as there was a dearth of full-time women workers.

"I will take up the issue with Congress president Sonia Gandhi and seats would be allocated to women workers," she said. The Congress president was keen to bring in more active women workers, Mrs. Sharma said, adding that at least, one of the nominated MLA posts would be given to a woman. She expressed the hope that the Women's Reservation Bill would be introduced in the Budget session of Parliament. The compulsion of coalition politics was preventing the Congress from pushing the Bill forward.

"If it is not passed during the United Progressive Alliance rule, it will be done when the party gets a majority of its own,'' she noted.

In the third week of March, the party would conduct a three-day session in New Delhi for block presidents of the Mahila Congress.

The Congress president would interact with the members and listen to their grievances. The list of workers from Puducherry was being prepared, she added.

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