Scores of activists of the Congress's women wing today staged a protest against the AAP government over the Bawana fire tragedy, in which 17 people were killed.
Delhi Mahila Congress president Sharmishtha Mukherjee, who led the protest near Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's official residence, said the government should give jobs to the family members of the women workers who died in the fire at a cracker warehouse last week.
Mukherjee also raised the issue of exploitation of women workers in Bawana area, saying they were made to work 12 hours a day and paid just one third of the minimum wages that is Rs 15,000.
"The women labourers have also not been able to get the benefits of various welfare schemes run by the central and Delhi governments," she said.
Mukherjee also attacked the chief minister and alleged that he was "misleading" the people of Delhi.
"Kejriwal is doing the politics of making excuses. How long will he mislead the people," she said.
Seventeen people, including 10 women, were killed in the fire that ripped through a "cold firecrackers" unit in Bawana in Northwest Delhi.
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