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AP to fight for 33pc reservation for women in J&K Assembly: Bukhari
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SRINAGAR: Advocating 33 per cent reservation for women in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, Apni Party (AP) president Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari on Saturday said his party believes in real empowerment of women.
“Our party believes in real empowerment of women in Jammu and Kashmir. And that dream will be realized when we have a considerable number of women lawmakers in our Legislative Assembly,” Bukhari told reporters on the sideline of a function here today.
Asked about today’s elections to the posts of DDC Chairpersons and vice chairpersons in five districts of Baramulla, Bandipora, Rambhan, Kishtwar and Poonch, Bukhari described these polls as a ‘significant coincidence’.
SRINAGAR: Apni Party president Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari on Saturday vehemently advocated 33 per cent reservation for women in Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly.
Bukhari was speaking to media persons at the sidelines of a Party function here at Apni Party office in Lal Chowk Srinagar.
“Our party believes in the real empowerment of women in Jammu and Kashmir. And that dream will be realized when we have a considerable number of women lawmakers in our Legislative Assembly,” Bukhari remarked.
Asked about today’s elections to the posts of DDC Chairperson and vice-chairperson in five districts of Baramulla, Bandipora, Ramban, Kishtwar, and Poonch, Bukhari described these polls as a ‘significant coincidence’.
Under Central Rule Since June 2018, Soon J&K Won t Have Representatives in Rajya Sabha
Without an assembly to elect new members, the seats that will be vacated by the incumbent MPs in February cannot be filled.
Parliamentarians in the Rajya Sabha after opposition MPs staged a walkout demanding suspension of 8 lawmakers be revoked, during the ongoing Monsoon Session of Parliament, at Parliament House in New Delhi, Tuesday, September 22, 2020. Photo: RSTV/PTI
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Srinagar: Under Central rule for nearly two-and-half-years, Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) will soon be in the peculiar situation of not having any representatives in the Rajya Sabha from February 15 onwards.
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The passage of legislation in some states to apparently protect women belonging to the majority community, also known as laws to prevent ‘love jihad’, has evoked concerns regarding the assault on individual constitutional rights and privacy, particularly the impact on women. The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet had cleared the Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020, whereas on December 29, the Madhya Pradesh Cabinet approved the Freedom of Religion Bill, 2020, as an ordinance.
These developments fit into the regional pattern of attempts in an environment of paranoia about demographic change and patriarchy.
In Buddhist-majority Myanmar, the parliament adopted four laws in 2015 the Monogamy Law, Religious Conversion Law and Interfaith Marriage Law, and Population Control Law. In 2012, a case of sexual violence and murder of a Rakhine Buddhist woman sparked communal violence in Sitwe, central Rakhine, that led to an intern