LUCKNOW: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday said that the recent appointment of three women judges in the Supreme Court was a key pointer to the style of working of the BJP government at the Centre.
Speaking at the working committee meeting of UP BJP Mahila Morcha, Yogi said during the regime of PM Narendra Modi, the country has seen the appointment of maximum number of three women governors, besides the key Union finance ministry allocated to a woman (Nirmala Sitharaman). “The country also saw the commendable performance of former foreign minister, Late Sushma Swaraj, and Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan (during Modi 1.0 government),” he said.
Yogi asserted that the axis of politics and governance changed after PM Modi came to power and his government has addressed issues pertaining to poor, farmers, youth and women and has brought them in the mainstream of political discourse.
“These sections have been the core of all central schemes conceptualised since 2014,” he said in the presence of national president of BJP Mahila Morcha, Vanathi Srinivasan, who is MLA from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. UP BJP Mahila Morcha president Geeta Shakya presided over the meeting.
The CM emphasised that the malpractice of Triple Talaq which crippled the society for years was a reflection of how rights of scores of women were suppressed. Yogi said the party needs to reach out to women affected by triple talaq, against which the Centre brought a law, and get them associated with the development of the country.
Adding that 56% and 54% women got elected as zila panchayat chairpersons and block pramukhs, respectively, in UP, Yogi said taking cue from the Centre, the state government has also introduced measures for women’s safety and self-reliance.
