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| BJP demands 50% reservation for women in Municipal elections | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 06: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state unit has demanded 50% reservation for women in the forthcoming elections to the State Municipal Corporations, Councils, Committees and other local bodies.
This was stated here today by state president Shamsher Singh Manhas at the conclusion of one day tour to Jammu by BJP Prabhari for Jammu and Kashmir Prof. Jagdish Mukhi, who held a meeting of senior leaders from state.
Those who met him included state president Shamsher Singh Manhas, former state president and National Executive Member Dr. Nirmal Singh, MLA East and National Executive Member Ashok Khajuria, Chief Spokesperson and National Executive Member Dr. Jitendra Singh, MLA Nagrota and National Executive Member Jugal Kishore Sharma, Vice-president Chander Prakash Ganga and State General Secretaries Satish Sharma and Sat Sharma (C.A). Manhas also said that BJP is the only political party which has already given 33 per cent reservation to women within the organizational structure.
Endorsing the state BJP unit’s demand for 50 per cent reservation for women in Municipal elections, Prof. Jagdish Mukhi said that such 50 per cent reservation has already been declared in respect of Mumbai and Delhi corporations.
He also reiterated the party’s demand to implement 73rd and 74th amendments of the constitution before holding the Municipal elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
At the meeting of the senior party leaders today, several other organizational issues also came up for discussion.
These included campaign strategies for forthcoming elections and future party programmes to highlight the misgovernance and corruption in three years of National Conference-Congress coalition government.
In addition, the party is already in the process of organizing district wise programmes against UPA government’s stand on Lok Pal bill.
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