NC alerts for min.33% participatin of women in election

Kathmandu, May 16 – Nepali Congress(NC) President Sushil Koirala has said that his party was alert on at least 33 per cent minimum participation of women in the upcoming CA elections.

 

Koirala made this remark while talking with women rights activists and women journalists on Thursday at his residence at Maharajgunj in the capital.

 

President Koirala said his party has many women cadres and he was ready even to make a woman prime minister in the government after election .

 

On the occasion, guarantee of 33 percent women participation in the next CA election was demanded from 24 organisations working on women issues.

 

During the meeting, Sancharika Samuha Executive Member Yashoda Adhikari said memorandum with 13 demands for not allowing people give candidacy for one involved in women violence, and not allowing candidacy for parties without 33 percent women participation.

 

Present in the meeting were Chairperson of an organisation, Didi Bahini, Saloni Singh, and Sancharika Samuha Chairperson Nirmala Sharma, among others. RSS