Proud of the moment when women get equal share in India's future: Maneka Gandhi
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Maneka Gandhi proud to be part of moment when govt giving women equal share in India's future. PM Modi not seeing people as mere statistics, but in light of their needs.
BJP MP Maneka Gandhi on September 19 said she is proud to be part of the moment when the government will be giving women “an equal share in future of India”. Ms. Gandhi, who has served as Minister for Women and Child Development in the past, talked about the power of the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ slogan of the government, and social schemes like Jan Dhan and Ujjwala Yojana.
“I am proud to be a part of this moment when [the] government, under leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji, has undertaken to repair the deep rooted asymmetry, and to give an equal share in the future of India to all us women,” Ms. Gandhi said at a function held in the Central Hall to commemorate the rich legacy of the Parliament of India.
She said Prime Minister Modi did not see people as mere statistics, but in light of their needs.
“Opening bank accounts, giving dignity in form of toilets, home water tap, building houses for the poor, gas cylinders, giving young people loans, skilling them, protecting them through the pandemic... “ she said.
The senior Parliamentarian said she entered Parliament at age of 32, nine years after her husband Sanjay Gandhi’s death, and has spent most of her adult life in this Parliament building.
“I have seen seven Prime Ministers and shaping of grand history,” she said.
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