BJP women cadre accuse Congress of blocking quota bill

Telangana BJP organised a women’s protest march in what it described as the Congress party’s “hypocritical and anti-women stance” on women’s reservation in legislatures on Thursday evening. Carrying afloat saffron flags and placards criticising the Congress party’s record on women’s empowerment, party workers including women raised slogans in favour of the ‘Women’s Reservation Act passed by the BJP-led NDA government’.

The march, which began at Domalguda and culminated in a public meeting at Indira Park, witnessed the participation of thousands of women party workers and supporters. Several senior BJP leaders took part in the foot march, including State president N. Ramchander Rao, Union Ministers G. Kishan Reddy and Bandi Sanjay Kumar, Rajya Sabha MP K. Laxman, MPs D.K. Aruna and Eatala Rajender, BJP legislative party leader Yeleti Maheswar Reddy, and MLC Malka Komuraiah.