NC seeks implementation of 33% women reservation in Parliament, assemblies

The women's wing of the National Conference on Saturday held a day-long party convention here with its leader Shamima Firdous lashing out at the Centre and the Lieutenant Governor administration for their alleged failure to provide employment to women in Jammu and Kashmir.

Firdous, a former MLA who is the state president of NC's women's wing, advocated the implementation of 33 per cent reservation for women in Parliament and assemblies.

The Centre and the J-K administration have not only failed to provide employment to the women folk but also plunged the weaker sex into a sea of miseries due to their misrule and anti-people policies, she said, addressing the convention at the party headquarters here.

Firdous said there is a dire need to empower the women, especially those living in Jammu and Kashmir who have witnessed and faced the worst period of terror onslaught for over three decades.

In order to empower women the first and foremost essential in today's scenario is the ...