NEW DELHI: In a strong indication of his govt’s intent to rollout one-third quota for women in Parliament and state legislatures, PM Narendra Modi Monday called upon BJP workers to conduct membership enrolment drive to help achieve the objective of having enough women as lawmakers in the next few years.
Speaking at the launch of the drive, he said the women’s reservation law will be coming into force during the “kalkhand” (period) of the organisation that this membership campaign will build.
“During this campaign period, 33% reservation would have been implemented in the state assemblies and Lok Sabha. If this 33% reservation for women is going to come in this period, then I will include all those people in my membership campaign, who can make maximum number of women victorious and make them MLAs and MPs,” the PM said at the launch of BJP’s fresh membership drive, an exercise taken up after six years.
Though Modi govt got the law for women’s quota passed during its last term, reservations would come into force after the completion of the long overdue census.
Modi said the campaign should not be confined to adding numbers but should be taken up as an ideological and emotional movement, full of patriotic fervour. He said some people call BJP an “election winning machine” which is the biggest insult to the party, as winning polls is a by-product of hard work done by generations of its cadres.
Modi also exhorted party colleagues to turn the campaign into a festival, focusing on the regions where party has polled least votes as also galvanise the youth, women, tribals, people living in remote villages, specially in border areas and beneficiaries of welfare initiatives.
Modi was enrolled by BJP president J P Nadda as the first member of the drive in the presence of senior functionaries, including a host of Union ministers such as Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah.
The membership drive will be conducted in two phases – Sept 2-5 and Oct 1-15.
Speaking at the launch of the drive, he said the women’s reservation law will be coming into force during the “kalkhand” (period) of the organisation that this membership campaign will build.
“During this campaign period, 33% reservation would have been implemented in the state assemblies and Lok Sabha. If this 33% reservation for women is going to come in this period, then I will include all those people in my membership campaign, who can make maximum number of women victorious and make them MLAs and MPs,” the PM said at the launch of BJP’s fresh membership drive, an exercise taken up after six years.
Though Modi govt got the law for women’s quota passed during its last term, reservations would come into force after the completion of the long overdue census.
Modi said the campaign should not be confined to adding numbers but should be taken up as an ideological and emotional movement, full of patriotic fervour. He said some people call BJP an “election winning machine” which is the biggest insult to the party, as winning polls is a by-product of hard work done by generations of its cadres.
Modi also exhorted party colleagues to turn the campaign into a festival, focusing on the regions where party has polled least votes as also galvanise the youth, women, tribals, people living in remote villages, specially in border areas and beneficiaries of welfare initiatives.
Modi was enrolled by BJP president J P Nadda as the first member of the drive in the presence of senior functionaries, including a host of Union ministers such as Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah.
The membership drive will be conducted in two phases – Sept 2-5 and Oct 1-15.