Day-long conference of NC’s Women Wing held at Kathua

NC sole guarantor for welfare of masses: Bimla Luthra

JAMMU Feb, 5th : J&K National Conference is sole guarantor for welfare of the masses especially for the women folk, and if people will pave way for this party to enter power corridors in J&K, their problems will vanish forever like a dream.

This was stated by Bimla Luthra, State Vice President Women Wing and former MLA Jammu while addressing a meeting of Party’s Women Workers at Kathua. The meeting was organized under the chairmanship of Parveen Kousar  District President, Kathua, Women Wing. On the occasion, Satwant Kaur Dogra, Provincial President of J&K National Conference’s Women Wing, was the Guest of Honour while senior NC leader Laxmi Dutta was also present.

Bimla Luthra, who was the Chief Guest of the conference, said that there is no doubt that the National Conference is the sole guarantor of people’s interests and for adding persistency, NC cadre has to maintain close contact with the people for knowing their problems and finding ways to resolve them on priority. She asserted that the women’s wing has always watered the values of the National Conference and is like a strong pillar which always stood by the party leadership to make it a force to reckon with in J&K. 

Earlier, the District President apprised the senior NC functionaries about pitiable condition and the problems related to widow pension, inflation, kitchen budget and above all sky-rocketing unemployment in J&K.

Bimla Luthra said that National Conference has always stood for women rights and will continue to do the same as it is indigenous to the party’s norms and ethos. She castigated BJP leadership over its failure to contain inflation in the country. “Household budgets are dwindling under directionless policies of helmsmen but there is no one to rectify the err”, she said, adding that women are the worst sufferers of unprecedented rise in prices of essential commodities as every day they have to think of doing new compromises to sustain life, reflecting the failure of government. She said that under NC Government, there was 50 percent seats reserved for girl students in J&K but under the incumbents there is only rhetoric and nothing else.

Satwant Kaur Dogra, in her address, said that quantum of miseries of women folk in Jammu and Kashmir is increasing day by day just because of unending misdeeds of BJP leadership and its rule. She said that present dispensation has expertise in giving big slogans and making lofty promises, which are not meant for fulfillment. She said that party in power is paralyzed by policy deficit as far as women of the country are concerned because it is clueless about how to empower the women as the much publicized ‘Women Reservation Bill’ by this government has nothing to offer at present to the women of the country.    

Citing the role of women in NC, Laxmi Dutta, senior NC leader, said that National Conference is a secular party and that is the reason behind its popularity in all the nooks and corners of the union territory unlike BJP, which has meager presence in some pockets in only Jammu region with its leaders always fearing defeat in polls in those areas as well. She, however, asked the party cadre to continue with the good work by remaining in touch with the people and also focus on problems of women folk in their areas to address them on priority.

Those who were present in the meeting included:- K.K Bakshi District Secretary Kathua, Pinky Khalsa District President Jammu Urban Women wing, Ashu Rajput, Joginder Kour, Rama and others.