PTI | | Posted by Pathi Venkata Thadhagath
Karnataka Pradesh Mahila Congress on Thursday urged the social gathering to offer at the very least 30 tickets to ladies within the upcoming Meeting elections. Mahila Congress President Pushpa Amarnath mentioned, “109 purposes have come in search of tickets, in about 74 constituencies ladies have utilized for tickets. Scrutiny is on for successful candidates. Together with ladies legislators I had participated within the social gathering’s election assembly at Belagavi just lately, the place I had positioned a request to offer tickets to at the very least 30 ladies.”
Chatting with reporters right here, she mentioned winnability would be the standards for the ticket distribution. “However, having obtained so many purposes from ladies in itself is a revolution, there may be consciousness to ask for tickets, that is a very good signal,” she added. The 224 member Karnataka meeting will go to polls by Could. Among the many eleven ladies members within the present meeting, six are from Congress, three from BJP, one from JD(S) and one nominated. The ladies Congress legislators are- Laxmi Hebbalkar (Belgaum Rural), Kaneez Fatima (Gulbarga North), Roopakala M (KGF), Anjali Nimbalkar (Khanapur), Soumya Reddy (Jayanagar), and Kusumavati Shivalli (Kundagol). Asserting that solely by bringing in ladies’s reservation, a bigger variety of ladies can get tickets to contest polls, Amarnath mentioned, elevating above social gathering line there’s a have to battle for it. Solely by means of ladies’s reservation laws can ladies get an enough variety of tickets and illustration, she famous. The BJP which has a majority ought to cross this invoice.
“Our chief Rahul Gandhi and management have already declared that within the occasion of Congress getting an entire majority and coming to energy, womens’ reservation invoice shall be handed and it is going to be carried out,” she added. State Congress President D Okay Shivakumarhad just lately mentioned that the social gathering is planning a separate manifesto for ladies forward of polls, and desires to launch a “assure letter” expressing Congress’ dedication in the direction of them. In the meantime, Congress common secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is scheduled to deal with a ladies’s conference right here on January 16, geared toward galvanising the assist of womenfolk forward of Meeting polls in Karnataka