Srinagar, July 18: Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Women’s wing President Shameema Firdous on Tuesday said that JKNC will continue with its efforts to end roadblocks for women to enter and rise in politics.
According to a party statement, Shameema said this while presiding over a one-day convention of the party’s women’s wing functionaries in District Budgam at Nagam. “The convention was also addressed by senior leader Abdul Rahim Rather. Provincial President Women’s Wing Er Sabiya Qadri, women’s wing functionaries Afroza Ji, Rubeena Chowdary, Ayesha Jameel also addressed the gathering. The convention was organized by District President Women’s Wing Rubina Chowdary,” the statement said.
In her address, Shameema 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 center of political agenda and discourse. We are happy to have spearheaded this change. We will continue with our efforts.”
Exhorting the women functionaries, Er Sabiya Qadri 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.”
The functionaries also proposed to have an exclusive women’s manifesto for providing administrative comfort to them and reversing the policies that have been detrimental to their growth and well-being.
