Is this women power for just the top posts? For the first time, three of the top slots in the Lok Sabha are now occupied by women with the elevation of Sushma Swaraj as Leader of the Opposition, Meira Kumar is the Speaker, the first woman leader to adorn the high office, while Sonia Gandhi is chairperson of the Congress Parliamentary Party. Incidentally, the current Lok Sabha has the highest number of women members – 59 – since Independence. Of them, 23 belong to the Congress followed by 13 of the BJP. There are four woman MPs each from the Trinamool Congress, the Samajwadi Party and the BSP. Sonia was the first woman to become Leader of the Opposition in 1999. Interestingly, she defeated Swaraj in Bellary for her maiden entry into the lower House. Hopefully, at the ground level, too, empowerment will be as welcome and encouraged. Because these top women really don’t make a difference to the aam admi. Their daily problems are still handled by men who have no respect or time for women. We still hear of rapes, satis and feoticide deaths each minute of our lives.
Source: The Tribune, Chandigarh, India.
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