Mahila Morcha demands woman candidates

THE STATE BJP Mahila Morcha has demanded women candidates for Bada Malehra assembly and Vidisha Lok Sabha by-polls to be held in the next couple of months.

THE STATE BJP Mahila Morcha has demanded women candidates for Bada Malehra assembly and Vidisha Lok Sabha by-polls to be held in the next couple of months.

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The demand was raised at the morcha office-bearers meeting held at the party headquarters on Wednesday. The State BJP organising general secretary Kaptan Singh Solanki, who seemed to be expecting the demand promptly replied that the party would take into consideration the winability factor while selecting the candidates for these two prestigious seats.

According to sources, at least three woman leaders were in sight for the morcha office-bearers- chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s wife Sadhna Singh, Commerce and Industries Minister Babulal Gaur’s daughter-in-law Krishna Gaur and Morcha state treasurer and local worker from Bada Malehra Lalita Yadav.

However, no names were mentioned at the meeting. The meeting also demanded increased share for the women in appointments at the corporations and the boards.

Kaptan Singh Solanki had something to offer to the women activists. He said at the local committees at least one woman from each polling booth would get representation.

He exhorted the woman activists to take part in vikas yatra, vikas shivir and vikas parv to be organised from the month of November to propagate the government’s achievements.

Those who attended the meeting include Sarita Deshpande, Sushma Jain, Seema Singh, Krishna Gaur, Mamta Borse, Shashi Sinho, Lalita Yadav, Asha Jain and Arti Agarwal.