‘We Were First…’: TMC Says Congress ‘Emulating’ It By Reserving 40% Tickets For Women
Besides TMC, the BJP and BSP also targeted congress and termed the move a “pure election drama”
Mumbai: Trinamool Congress took a dig at the congress’s announcement that it will give 40% of its tickets to women candidates in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections and said that Mamata Banerjee was the first to show the way to ensure increased participation of women in politics, in this country.
“Under the visionary leadership of @MamataOfficial, AITC has shown the way to ensure increased participation of women in politics, in this country. We are the first party to give 40 per cent seats to women in Lok Sabha elections,” the tweet said.
Further targeting the Congress, Trinamool Congress (TMC) also said that they should give women’s seats in other states too.
“Amid such dire times, @INCIndia is understandably trying to emulate and one can only hope that this is genuine and not tokenism. If they are to be taken seriously, they must give 40% seats to women in states other than UP as well,” All India Trinamool Congress tweeted.
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Besides TMC, the BJP and BSP also targeted Congress and termed the move a “pure election drama”.
Targeting the Congress, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and BSP supremo Mayawati asked why did their government at the Centre fail to get a law enacted to give 33% reservation to women in Parliament and legislative assemblies.
BJP’s social media chief Amit Malviya also took a swipe at the Congress and tweeted, “It is sad that while Gandhi’s pontificate on women empowerment, not a day passes in Rajasthan, a Congress-ruled state, when a woman, often a Dalit, is not raped or molested.”
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan also criticized with his response saying the BJP has already given 50% seats to women in the upcoming by-polls, elections in Madhya Pradesh.
On Tuesday, party’s general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said that the decision is aimed at making women, roughly constituting half the voters, a “full-fledged partner in power”.
UP goes to elections in February next year along with other states like Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa, and Mizoram.
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