NFIW flays NDA for 'failure' to bring in 33% quota for women

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Press Trust of India Puducherry
Last Updated : Feb 21 2017 | 6:57 PM IST
: National Federation of Indian Women, CPI's women's wing, today charged the NDA government at the Centre with doing injustice to women by failing to enforce 33 per cent quota in decision making fora like Assemblies and Parliament.
General Secretary of the NFIW here B Sarala said in a release here today that Federation volunteers would revive their protest against delay in according 33 per cent quota and individually write to the Prime Minister to bring it in.
Allegign that the NDA government was totally anti people and anti labour, she said that state-wide agitations would be held soon to bring to focus various 'monumental failures' of the Central government.

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First Published: Feb 21 2017 | 6:57 PM IST

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