Srinagar, Feb 20: National Conference Women’s Wing Provincial President Er Sabiya Qadri on Thursday said the party will continue with its efforts to end roadblocks to women’s development and progress.
She said this while presiding over a meeting of the party’s women’s wing functionaries of Lal Chowk assembly segment at party headquarters here. MLA Lal Chowk Ahsan Pardesi was the chief guest on the occasion.
In her address, Qadri said, “NC has taken pioneering steps forward for the full participation of women in politics and increasing their stake in nation-building. Given a chance, women will be instrumental in lifting the politics above narrow divisions and demanding a focus on development, health, education, employment, economics and other issues that deeply affect the public. It is essential to bring women to the centre of political agenda and discourse. We are happy to have spearheaded this change. We will continue with our efforts.”
Exhorting the women functionaries, she said, “A democratic system requires ensuring that women are represented at all levels of government, from the local to higher level. I can say with responsibility that ours is the only party that has taken a lead towards that direction. Rather our party has been a trailblazer as the only party that boasts a definitive programme for alleviating the political and economic backwardness of our mothers and sisters. We have been the initiators of the tradition of the political movement in Kashmir and its evolution of identity politics, of which women are a core element.”
