PNS|Hyderabad
BRS MLC Kavitha launched a scathing attack on BJP State President G. Kishan Reddy and Congress State President Revanth Reddy regarding their stands on the Women’s Reservation Bill.
She called the actions and statements of both the BJP and the Congress state units over the BRS’s ticket distribution and representation of women as mere rhetoric.
In a strong response to Union Minister Kishan Reddy, Kavitha said the former’s concern for women’s rights was surprising, but welcomed that someone from the BJP had finally acknowledged the long pending demand for the Women’s Reservation Bill which aims to ensure increased representation for women in Indian legislatures.
She pointed out the BJP’s failure to fulfil its two-time manifesto promise of passing the Women’s Reservation Bill, despite having the means to do so.
“Kishan Anna, with an overwhelming majority in the Parliament, BJP can pass any Bill. Your party has refused to even entertain its two-time manifesto promise of the Women’s Reservation Bill,” she tweeted.
Further, she said that her party understood the frustration and confusion of the BJP which was waiting to poach BRS leaders who were denied tickets. She advised the BJP State president not to link his political insecurities to women’s representation.
Kavitha also highlighted the support of Chief Minister KCR for increasing women’s representation at both national and State levels. She said that without a Constitutional right in place, just like the local bodies that now provide 14 lakh women a chance, women’s reservations in State legislatures and Parliament is not possible.
The former MP reminded that the Chief Minister had proposed to increase the number of Parliamentary seats and reserve one-third of them for women which displayed a genuine commitment. She stated that the BRS did not sell ‘jumlas’ like the BJP.
Kavitha called upon the BJP, the Congress and other political parties to present their plans for women’s representation and what they had to offer to the women of Telangana during ticket distribution.
In her attack on Congress State unit President Revanth Reddy and the Congress, she described the Congress’s response towards the tabling and passing of the Women’s Reservation Bill a eyewash.
She said that during its 60-year rule, the Congress did nothing about it and in the last 10 years Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi did not even raise the issue of Women’s Reservation Bill.
She added that the absence of the Congress in her dharna and hunger strike demanding tabling of the Women’s Reservation Bill in Delhi in March, speaks volumes about their policy towards the Bill.
She also pointed to the hypocrisy of the Congress regarding women’s representation in the Karnataka Cabinet which has 34 ministers but only one women minister and came down heavily on the malicious agenda of the Congress to announce seats for women in the UP Assembly election where the party has no mass base.
Kavitha lashed out at Revanth and called him the ‘Godse who is sitting in Gandhi Bhavan.’
