BJP Mahila Morcha protests near Kejriwal’s residence

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, February 16

BJP Mahila Morcha workers led by Mahila Morcha president Poonam Prashar Jha and vice-president Shikha Rai today held a massive demonstration at the residence of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to protest against the government's 'non-performance' on the issues like women safety and creation of jobs for women.

Delhi Police resorted to water cannons as hundreds of women demonstrators broke double police barricade around the Chief Minister's residence and ran towards it.

BJP in-charge Shyam Jaju joined the demonstration and addressed the workers. BJP general secretaries Kuljeet Singh Chahal, Ravinder Gupta and Rajesh Bhatia too joined in to support the workers.

Addressing the demonstrators, Shyam Jaju said that Kejriwal government has let down Delhi on all its electoral promises but the worst sufferers are women. He raised issues on women security, vocational training and women empowerment but two years into power, the Chief Minister has done nothing on women security or empowerment. Marshals in buses, women cabs, night travel protection, CCTV network to give women a sense of security continue to be distant dreams. Disregarding women empowerment, Kejriwal has denied participation of women in government. In his party leadership too, women are missing, he said.

Poonam Prashar Jha said Kejriwal came to power by promising more jobs, education and a better and safer Delhi, but today the city is experiencing fear and corruption even as better employment, specially for women, is elusive.

Shikha Rai said the government arrangements for women can be well imagined in the light of what people have seen at Asha Kiran Home and Asha Jyoti Home. All heads bow down in shame at hearing that women roam around without clothes in the so-called support homes. Woman and child inmates there have died from malnutrition. It is shocking to see that even as the matters of Asha Kiran and Asha Jyoti Homes have attracted worldwide attention, not a single AAP woman MLA has found time to visit the Homes.