Rahul Gandhi bats for more women leaders in Congress; targets 50% women CMs within 10 years

By PTI

KOCHI: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi stated on Friday that the social gathering ought to actively promote ladies inside its organisational construction and set a goal to have 50 per cent of ladies as chief ministers inside the subsequent 10 years.

Inaugurating ‘Utsaah,’ a Kerala Mahila Congress conference right here, the Wayanad MP stated there are quite a few ladies leaders in his social gathering who possess the qualities essential to turn out to be chief ministers.

“Earlier, I used to be discussing what could be an excellent goal for us to try to obtain, and I believed an excellent goal for the Congress social gathering could be that in 10 years from at the moment, 50 per cent of our chief ministers are ladies… At this time, we do not have a single lady chief minister. However I do know there are various ladies within the Congress social gathering who’ve the qualities to be excellent chief ministers,” Gandhi stated.

The Congress chief additionally attacked the RSS and stated it was “purely a male organisation.”

“I believe ladies are superior to males in some ways. They’ve extra persistence than males. They’ve longer-term imaginative and prescient than males. They’re extra delicate and compassionate than males. We essentially imagine that girls ought to be a part of the ability construction,” Gandhi stated, alleging that together with ladies isn’t a part of the ideology of the RSS.

He stated that in the whole historical past of the RSS, it has not allowed ladies into its ranks.

The previous Congress president additionally stated that the basic struggle between the RSS and the Congress is concerning the function ladies ought to play in Indian politics.

He criticised the BJP-led NDA authorities on the Centre for placing on maintain the implementation of the Ladies’s Reservation Invoice regardless of receiving approval from Parliament.

The Invoice, geared toward reserving one-third of the seats within the Lok Sabha and state assemblies for ladies, had obtained parliamentary approval in September.

“I’ve by no means seen any Invoice handed in Parliament the place it will likely be carried out a decade later. The one Invoice that the BJP is implementing after 10 years is the one which has to do with ladies’s energy,” Gandhi stated.

He additionally referred to sure alleged statements of sure right-wing leaders saying a woman wouldn’t have been raped if she had dressed correctly.

“That is an insult to each single lady on this nation. It’s turning the sufferer into the villain. That is the distinction between us and the RSS,” he stated.

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KOCHI: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi stated on Friday that the social gathering ought to actively promote ladies inside its organisational construction and set a goal to have 50 per cent of ladies as chief ministers inside the subsequent 10 years.

Inaugurating ‘Utsaah,’ a Kerala Mahila Congress conference right here, the Wayanad MP stated there are quite a few ladies leaders in his social gathering who possess the qualities essential to turn out to be chief ministers.

“Earlier, I used to be discussing what could be an excellent goal for us to try to obtain, and I believed an excellent goal for the Congress social gathering could be that in 10 years from at the moment, 50 per cent of our chief ministers are ladies… At this time, we do not have a single lady chief minister. However I do know there are various ladies within the Congress social gathering who’ve the qualities to be excellent chief ministers,” Gandhi stated.googletag.cmd.push(perform() {googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

The Congress chief additionally attacked the RSS and stated it was “purely a male organisation.”

“I believe ladies are superior to males in some ways. They’ve extra persistence than males. They’ve longer-term imaginative and prescient than males. They’re extra delicate and compassionate than males. We essentially imagine that girls ought to be a part of the ability construction,” Gandhi stated, alleging that together with ladies isn’t a part of the ideology of the RSS.

He stated that in the whole historical past of the RSS, it has not allowed ladies into its ranks.

The previous Congress president additionally stated that the basic struggle between the RSS and the Congress is concerning the function ladies ought to play in Indian politics.

He criticised the BJP-led NDA authorities on the Centre for placing on maintain the implementation of the Ladies’s Reservation Invoice regardless of receiving approval from Parliament.

The Invoice, geared toward reserving one-third of the seats within the Lok Sabha and state assemblies for ladies, had obtained parliamentary approval in September.

“I’ve by no means seen any Invoice handed in Parliament the place it will likely be carried out a decade later. The one Invoice that the BJP is implementing after 10 years is the one which has to do with ladies’s energy,” Gandhi stated.

He additionally referred to sure alleged statements of sure right-wing leaders saying a woman wouldn’t have been raped if she had dressed correctly.

“That is an insult to each single lady on this nation. It’s turning the sufferer into the villain. That is the distinction between us and the RSS,” he stated. Observe The New Indian Categorical channel on WhatsApp