"Gandhi Family is only interested in empowering the women in their family. They are not interested in empowering the women in poor or Adivasi or Dalit women, Union Minister Smriti Irani said.
People's Democratic Party Chief Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday said that Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam is an “important step” in the progress of the country after the Women's Reservation Bill was tabled today in Lok Sabha.
This event, the second in a series of workshops planned over the next six months, was organized as part of the Digital India Awareness campaign by the National e-Governance Division (NeGD), read the Ministry of Electronics and IT press release.
Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday slammed the Centre on the second day of the Special Session in Parliament and said that the federal structure is getting weakened under the Central government.
“They (parties) won't choose those who're educated and can fight,” the Congress leader said. “I know how backwards and scheduled caste people are chosen by political parties,” Kharge said, amid protest from treasury members, who took exception to his remarks.
Michela Mutovciev, a Research Analyst at Amsterdam-based EFSAS think-tank made her intervention during the Interactive dialogue with the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances during the 54th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday.
"The previous government has sold the rights of Himachal by signing an MoU in the energy sector during the investors meet," Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhwinder Sukhu said.
With the introduction of the Women's Reservation Bill in the Parliament, Himachal Pradesh Minister Vikramaditya Singh has said that this has been continuously taken up by successive Congress governments in the past and the party will support the bill and would take it to its logical conclusi
Amid the awaited Women Reservation bill to be introduced in the Parliament today, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has said that a separate quota for the women from OBC, SC and ST sections in the reservation should be ensured in the bill.
Led by PM Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Ministers Piyush Goyal and Nitin Gadkari were among other parliamentarians who walked from the old building to the new complex. The MPs raised slogans of ‘Vande Mataram’ and ‘Bharat Mata ki Ja