Bhubaneswar: Call it the after-effect of BJD president and leader minister Naveen Patnaik’s resolution to stay 33% of Lok Sabha seats for ladies within the state adopted via Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee booking 41% of the LS seats for them, Congress too plans to practice suit.
Niranjan Patnaik, president of the birthday celebration’s state unit, on Wednesday stated the AICC has asked him to suggest more names of women aspirants for both the assembly and Lok Sabha seats. “We are going to box more females candidates as urged via our birthday celebration prime command. Unlike the BJD and TMC, we can't specify the percentage of seats that we intend to stay for the women candidates. But we will give precedence to girls candidates,” Niranjan stated after returning from Delhi the place he along side any other senior leaders had been camping since Monday to expedite the finalization of tickets for the following four-phase simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections within the state.
In 2014, Congress had fielded females candidates in eight of the 147 assembly seats and two of the 21 Lok Sabha seats within the state. However, all of them have been defeated with some losing their deposits as well.
Though Niranjan didn't divulge the exact number of probable females candidates, he stated the general record could have a considerably just right representation of women, both within the assembly and Lok Sabha seats. The eight assembly constituencies from the place Congress had fielded females candidates in 2014 have been Jashipur, Binjharpur, Hindol, Talcher, Baramba, Chilika, Khandapada and Daspalla. Puri and Cuttack have been a number of the LS seats from the place the Grand Old Party had fielded females candidates.
With the AICC pressing for the inclusion of more females within the record of candidates, the process of finalizing the names for birthday celebration tickets may be not on time. “We will do the groundwork for 2 or three more days so far as the selection of the aspiring females candidates is worried,” Niranjan stated. “The record of candidates for at least 15 Lok Sabha and 105 assembly constituencies in Odisha have virtually been finalised,” he added.
Quizzed concerning the last-minute resolution to support the number of females candidates after BJD and TMC, Congress downplayed the proposed move. “We have many deserving females candidates in several seats. I'm hopeful that those females can be regarded as. Congress has long been an recommend of women’s empowerment within the nation. A variety of women-centric welfare measures can be taken if Congress forms executive within the state,” Mahila Congress state president Sumitra Jena stated.
Significantly, when Naveen had in December last yr written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to begin steps to verify 33% reservation of women in Parliament and state assemblies, Congress president Rahul Gandhi had prolonged his strengthen to the initiative.
Niranjan Patnaik, president of the birthday celebration’s state unit, on Wednesday stated the AICC has asked him to suggest more names of women aspirants for both the assembly and Lok Sabha seats. “We are going to box more females candidates as urged via our birthday celebration prime command. Unlike the BJD and TMC, we can't specify the percentage of seats that we intend to stay for the women candidates. But we will give precedence to girls candidates,” Niranjan stated after returning from Delhi the place he along side any other senior leaders had been camping since Monday to expedite the finalization of tickets for the following four-phase simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections within the state.
In 2014, Congress had fielded females candidates in eight of the 147 assembly seats and two of the 21 Lok Sabha seats within the state. However, all of them have been defeated with some losing their deposits as well.
Though Niranjan didn't divulge the exact number of probable females candidates, he stated the general record could have a considerably just right representation of women, both within the assembly and Lok Sabha seats. The eight assembly constituencies from the place Congress had fielded females candidates in 2014 have been Jashipur, Binjharpur, Hindol, Talcher, Baramba, Chilika, Khandapada and Daspalla. Puri and Cuttack have been a number of the LS seats from the place the Grand Old Party had fielded females candidates.
With the AICC pressing for the inclusion of more females within the record of candidates, the process of finalizing the names for birthday celebration tickets may be not on time. “We will do the groundwork for 2 or three more days so far as the selection of the aspiring females candidates is worried,” Niranjan stated. “The record of candidates for at least 15 Lok Sabha and 105 assembly constituencies in Odisha have virtually been finalised,” he added.
Quizzed concerning the last-minute resolution to support the number of females candidates after BJD and TMC, Congress downplayed the proposed move. “We have many deserving females candidates in several seats. I'm hopeful that those females can be regarded as. Congress has long been an recommend of women’s empowerment within the nation. A variety of women-centric welfare measures can be taken if Congress forms executive within the state,” Mahila Congress state president Sumitra Jena stated.
Significantly, when Naveen had in December last yr written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to begin steps to verify 33% reservation of women in Parliament and state assemblies, Congress president Rahul Gandhi had prolonged his strengthen to the initiative.
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