Congress leader Kishore Upadhyay demands 40% tickets for women in ensuing Uttarakhand elections

The Uttarakhand Congress’s former president and founding leader of Forests Rights movement of Uttarakhand has demanded forty percent seats for women in Uttarakhand in the ensuing elections including enactment of a concrete law on land act in Uttarakhand. He also demanded reanalysis of forest and environment laws of the hilly state and restoration of traditional rights of forest, lands and water to the inhabitants of Uttarakhand. While extending his greetings to Uttarakhand Mahila Manch on its foundation day, Kishore Upadhyay has submitted these suggestions n demands to the Uttarakhand Mahila Manch with the hope that they will raise these issues at the relevant forums or with the ruling party government. But among these demands about giving forty percent tickets to women in Uttarakhand in the ensuing elections he made this particular demand with all the political parties of the himlayan state, not to his own party in particular, which sounds to ne diplomatic in a way.

However, Kishore Upadhyay had fully backed the earlier demand of Annapurna Rawat, national general secretary of Mahila Congress last month when she had catagorically appealed to the party high command to allocate 40% tickets to women candidates in Uttarakhand, creating quite a furore in the political corridors of Congress party, though there was no reaction by either her father Harish Rawat or other leaders of Congress. It may be recalled that Congress general secretary had earlier made this announcement to allocate forty percent tickets to women, repeating it in Amethi, yesterday as well. She also announced giving forty percent employment to women out of twenty lakhs jobs in UP, if Congress comes to power in the state of UP.