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greeting the crowd: Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam founder Vijayakant at the International Women’s Day rally at Tiruchi on Sunday. TIRUCHI: A special plan, exclusively aimed at women’s development and improving their living standards, should be conceived and implemented within the Five-Year Plan framework, Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam founder Vijayakant said on Sunday. Women constituted a significant portion of the country’s working class and there was a strong case for implementing a special plan for their overall development. Though governments kept talking about reservation for women, they had not given due recognition to women, he said at a public meeting organised by the party in connection with the International Women’s Day here. Rampant povertyDespite several announcements on welfare schemes, poverty was rampant in the country and the rising prices of essential commodities added to the burden of the poor and middle class. Farmers continued to suffer with no solution to alleviate their problems. Fishermen were being shot everyday. Inter-state river disputes continued to remain a vexed problem, he said questioning the achievements of the United Progressive Alliance government. Referring to the demolition of a marriage hall owned by him at Chennai, he asserted that he would not succumb to “pressure and indirect attempts to cow him down.” “Calculated attempts are made to malign me, whenever I raise issues concerning people. Those in power are unable to digest when I raise queries. I will continue to raise questions whosoever might be in power. I have entered politics with people’s backing and the people are my allies,” he said. Pointing out that his party had contested the elections alone within three years of its birth, he dared the major parties in Tamil Nadu to go it alone in the elections. Party presidium chairman Panruti Ramachandran and others spoke. Rally taken outEarlier, a rally taken out in the City saw a large turnout of the party women’s wing members. Carrying placards and party flags, members wearing saris in the colours of the party flag marched from the Kohinoor Theatre junction to the Uzhavar Sandhai grounds. It took five hours for the procession — which was flagged off and led by Premalatha Vijayakant — to cover a distance of two km. Mr. Vijayakant kept waving and flashing victory signs from a specially erected dais on the Shastri Road. 33 per cent quotaThe meeting focussed on 33 per cent reservation for women in legislature, urging the Centre to pass the Women’s Reservation Bill in Parliament at the earliest. It also sought 50 per cent reservation for women in employment in all sectors.
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