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NCP to launch political wing for young women

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Press Trust of India Mumbai
Last Updated : Jan 21 2013 | 4:10 AM IST

"The wing, to be launched on June 10 by NCP chief Sharad Pawar, will focus on the personal and collective issues of women. Issues such as female foeticide, providing hostels for women at subsidised rates in the district and regional level and health issues will be given priority", RYC coordinator Minal Jagdale told PTI.

RYC is the brainchild of NCP MP and Sharad Pawar's daughter Supriya Sule.

She had earlier taken the initiative of sensitising the masses on female foeticide through awareness campaigns in Pune.

Sule, who is the convener of the RYC, will look after the wing for first two years.

"The places at which we surveyed, girls took keen interest in social issues rather than political ones. However, political training in the form of workshops will also be provided to them", Jagdale said.

The workshops to make the girls politically active would be conducted after every three months at district and regional level, she added.

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"The wing will also force the state government to implement the Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule scheme in the state at the earliest focusing on issues related to girls", she said.

The programme will be attended by Union Ministers Agatha Sangma, Praful Patel, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and Madhukar Pichad.

  

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First Published: May 13 2012 | 4:55 PM IST

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