CONGRESS SANDESH COMPLETES ITS SEVEN YEAR

Reportas chairperson, Delhi Social Welfare Board.The Mahila Congress held homage meetings of our departed leadersShri Sunil Dutt, Shri O.P. Jindal and Shri Surendra Singh Chaudhary.A memorial mass was held for the Pope by the Goa PMC. ❖Sonia Gandhi stresses for Girl Educationheld in Delhi (Krishnanagar), Rajasthan, Chhatisgarh, Haryana(Gurgaon & Karnal, etc.) and MP. In U.P., Smt. Arti Bajpai organizeda dharna against this at Bangaramau. The M.P., PMC took up theissue of Smt. Shakuntala Verma’s hands being chopped off as aresult of her addressing a Bal Vivah Virodhi meeting, its presidentSmt. Shobha went to Dhar and Delhi, persuing the case for justice.AGAINST THE PRACTICE OF SATI:After the Banda Sati case and highly irresponsible and womeninsensitive Rajasthan Tourism’s new line “Welcome to the state ofSati”, the Mahila Congress staged a demonstration near BJPheadquarters, burnt Vasundhara Raje’s effigy and courted arrests.MAHILA CONGRESS ORGANIZATIONAL MEETINGS:The AIMC president, Dr. Rita Joshi had two national office bearer’smeetings, chalking out future programmes. Delhi PMC meetingswere called on 12 & 19 May.MAHILA CONGRESS MEMBERSHIP DRIVE:The acting president of Maharashtra PMC Smt. Shyamala Sonawanesubmitted Rs. One Lakh towards Mahila Congress membership fromher state. Membership meetings were held in all states. The lastdate for ending the membership drive was postponed, hence someof the collected fees are still awaited.RAJIV GANDHI’S BALIDAN DIWAS:All centers of the Mahila Congress observed Rajiv Gandhi’s martyrdomday through suitable socio-political activities. Tamil Nadu PMCmembers went to Sriperumbadur on the day. Smt. Asha Sharma(Gurgaon) distributed textbooks to children selected from variousschools. Mahilas donated blood in Karnataka.The Mahila Congress feels gratified to the cabinet for drafting theDomestic Violence Bill. The Mahila Congress is also gratified at theappointment of its VP, Mrs. Neeva Konwar as member NCW, itsnational secretary, Smt. Renu Poswal as the chairperson, HaryanaSocial Welfare Board and its Delhi PMC president, Smt. Motia GargRAI BAREILLY: While stressing on the need to educate the girlchild, the Congress President, Smt. Sonia Gandhi said thatunless our women is educated, the country will not makeprogress, Smt. Gandhi said this while laying the foundationstone of the Ryan International School here on 8 July whenshe was on a three-day tour of her Parliamentary constituencyfrom 7 to 9 July.Smt. Gandhi said that education and health have special placein our Common Minimum Programme, which is the agenda ofthe UPA Government.Continued from Pg 27but significant fact is that after loosing power in the Assemblyelection held in 1988 the former chief minister and veteran triballeader of CPI-M, Shri Dasarath Deb had raised the demand forextension of Article 370, of Constitution of Tripura in a seminarat Delhi in the year 1989. It is another matter than the demandhad been raised quite ignorantly without any knowledge of thehistorical background in which Article 370 had been incorporatedin the Indian constitution. The fact however, remains that themindset of the CPI-M leadership is tuned only to electoralconsideration. Mysteriously, for only electoral gain, during theAssembly election 2003 they took a stand like “Amra Bangalee”a parochial Bangalee organization in the state only to woo theBengali vote, as a political imperative as they realized they areunable to retain the hold over the tribal support.Author is vice president, Tripura PCCJuly, 2005Congress Sandesh29