Early Times Report jammu, Mar 10: Apni Party Senior Vice President Ghulam Hassan Mir demanded reservation in the Assembly and Parliament of India for women. A function was organized at the party office in which over 30 women from Digana and Gandhi Nagar joined the Apni Party in the presence of senior leaders. "In our society, men and women have equal status. A society cannot progress until men and women work shoulder to shoulder. Women have remained successful in all the fields and never remained behind in any of the fields from men," said Ghulam Hassan Mir while welcoming the newcomers into the Party. Mir said that the Apni Party believes that a country and Union Territory cannot progress until women also progress equally with men. "We want economic, social and political empowerment of women. Even as the women have been empowered in Panchayat, Municipal and District Development Council (DDC), but they should be given reservation in Assembly and Parliaments," added Mir. Those who joined the Party included Ichpal Kour, Rabinder Kour, Manpreet Kour, Sunita Kour, Harpreet Kour, Gurmeet Kour, Priyanka Sharma, Avneet Kour, Divya Mehra, Gurpreet Kour, Ritika Singh, Arshpreet Kour, Kulwinder Kour, Poonam Mehra, Madhubala, Rajni Mehra, Harmeet Kour, Jaskaran Kaur, Balinder Kour, Jasvinder Kour, Anjali, Akriti, Nalini Singh, Neelam Chouhan, Shallu Jamwal and others. |