Raipur, CGnews: Was Sonia right to say that her selection of Pratibha as a President of India means tribute to womanhood? Is not giving 33% reservation also tribute to womanhood?

The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) women's wing said it would mobilise 100,000 activists in New Delhi for its Feb 21 rally in support of women's reservation bill.

Common people think that BJP is proceeding towards respecting womanhood politically also.

"Women from all political parties have extended support to the rally. They are not coming out openly but have assured all assistance to make it a grand success," Kiran Maheshwari, national chairperson of the women's wing, told reporters here Thursday.

Kiran Maheshwary alleged that UPA government was not serious ensuring 33 percent reservations for women.

"The organization has decided to come out to the streets to mount pressure on the union government," she said, adding that more than 100,000 women will gather in the national capital for the rally. Special trains will be arranged for the activists to reach New Delhi.

Maheshwari added that the BJP honoured women by reserving 33 percent posts for them in the organisational set-up. "Within two months, the posts from ward to state level would be filled," she said.

She further assured the women activists in Chhattisgarh that she would take initiative to ensure 33 percent women would contest in the upcoming assembly elections, to be held in November this year.

The 33% reservation for women in panchayat raj institutions is an important part of this empowerment of women. Is it not true for parliament and legislative councils?