No invite to women netas from opposition at Vijayawada

  • | Saturday | 11th February, 2017

While the meeting's primary agenda was to discuss constructive ways to empower women in all spheres, absence of opposition leaders was glaring. So, I am not attending the conclave," the former Union minister told TOI.A leader of BJP Mahila Morcha from Guntur said that none of the women leaders from her party was invited. Former Union minister and daughter of TDP founder NT Rama Rao, Daggubati Purandeswari , was also not invited for the meet. "As a state leader of the BJP women's wing, I should have been invited," she said.State women Congress president Sunkara Padmasri, a native of Vijayawada, said she too was not invited. VIJAYAWADA: Notwithstanding the hype surrounding the three-day National Women's Parliament, hardly any women leaders and leaders from the opposition figured among delegates on Day One.Women leaders from ruling TDP's ally Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), were conspicuous by their absence.

VIJAYAWADA: Notwithstanding the hype surrounding the three-day National Women's Parliament, hardly any women leaders and leaders from the opposition figured among delegates on Day One.Women leaders from ruling TDP's ally Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), were conspicuous by their absence. While the meeting's primary agenda was to discuss constructive ways to empower women in all spheres, absence of opposition leaders was glaring. Former Union minister and daughter of TDP founder NT Rama Rao, Daggubati Purandeswari , was also not invited for the meet. "I have not received the invite for the NWP. So, I am not attending the conclave," the former Union minister told TOI.A leader of BJP Mahila Morcha from Guntur said that none of the women leaders from her party was invited."As a state leader of the BJP women's wing, I should have been invited," she said.State women Congress president Sunkara Padmasri, a native of Vijayawada, said she too was not invited.

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