Jammu, March 4: State President Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) Women Wing and former legislator Shamima Firdous asserted that there is a dire need to empower the women especially those living in Jammu and Kashmir who have witnessed the worst period of terror onslaught for over three decades.
While addressing the party convention held at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhawan, she emphasized on the implementation of 33 per cent reservation for the women in the Assembly and Parliament with an aim to empower women.
Earlier the party convention was held to discuss the issues related to women.
Shamima Firdous said it is an irony that women despite playing a vital role in the society continues to be at the receiving end even in the present day world when the rapid technological strides have reduced the world to a global village.
She said that the young women in contemporary times are struggling amid the acute unemployment and in such a situation it is hard for women to feel empowered.
The former MLA castigated the Union Govt as well as the J&K administration not only for having failed to provide employment to the women folk but having plunged the female folk into a sea of miseries due to their misrule amid anti-people policies.
“Today the women across Jammu and Kashmir are facing huge problems and it is the duty of the government to address their concerns and issues at the earliest”.
The Provincial President Rattan Lal Gupta, in his address, said that the wrong policies of the BJP Govt have dealt a heavy blow to J&K’s prosperity and development bringing it to an all time low.
He criticized the Government for imposing property tax and carrying out demolition drives. He demanded that property tax should be kept in abeyance till the elections held and the decision should be taken by the people’s representative Govt.
Gupta asked BJP leadership that instead of imposing property tax through the government the same should be kept in its manifesto and let the people elect its government.
He warned the government at the centre and in J&K not to force any decision arbitrarily and undemocratically, failing which the people have left no other option to come on roads. He demanded that elections to the J&K Assembly should be held at the earliest and also give statehood before election.
