Akumla Pongen at ‘Nari Nyay Andolan’ in New Delhi on July 29.
Kohima, August 4 (MExN): Nagaland Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee (NPMCC) president Akumla Pongen attended the Nari Nyay Andolan held at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi on July 29, organised by the All India Mahila Congress.
This Andolan is a nationwide movement for social and economic justice for the womenfolk of the Nation and will continue till the central government accedes to its demands, according to a press note received here.
NPMCC stated that this movement commenced from New Delhi and spread throughout the length and breadth of the nation “till our demands are fulfilled and justice is served.”
The core demand stated that under political empowerment and greater participation of women in policy making and governance, the Women's Reservation Act has to be immediately implemented in both Parliament and the State Legislative Assemblies, while ensuring proportionate reservation and participation of “our sisters from the OBC and the most backward classes.”
Under economic empowerment, to provide relief to half of the country's population who are fighting a painful battle against the scourges of rising inflation and unemployment on a daily basis, it demanded that the Central Government adopt the Mahalaxmi Yojana, a financial assistance scheme targeting the women of the Nation promised by the Congress Party under its Nari Nyay Guarantee, and start transferring Rs 8,500 per month (or Rs 1,00,000 annually) directly to the bank accounts of one woman from every poor family in the country.
The core demand stated that crime against women across the country are continuously on the rise and the fear of the law among the criminals is waning, the latest example of this being the tragic incident where two women were buried alive in Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, putting the entire country to shame.
Cases of murder, rape, gang rape and other heinous crimes against women are being reported across the Nation with little signs of abatement anytime soon, it stated.
