‘Party will field 6 women as AICC said’

Thiruvananthapuram: All-India Mahila Congress (AIMC) vice-president Bindu Krishna has demanded that six women should be fielded for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in the state.

Krishna has cited Rahul Gandhi's Jaipur declaration that 50 percent of seats should be earmarked for women. This is the first time that Mahila Congress is putting forth a claim in the AlCC's manifesto.

Apart from senior leaders like A. K. Antony and Jairam Ramesh, Dr G. Mohan Gopal, lawyer and director of the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Contemporary Studies (RGICS), a think-tank affiliated with the Congress,  are  in the party's election co-ordination committee headed by Rahul Gandhi.

“It was Jairam Ramesh who took a special interest in getting the views of women’s and  outreach organisations,  NGOs, individuals, websites and open comments from the public. 

Accordingly, the manifesto  will be finalised by this month-end. We have demanded  women representation across the country with special emphasis on women power in Kerala,” Krishna, who is also a likely Lok Sabha candidate, told DC