‘Due primacy given to women empowerment’

By Our Staff Reporter
IMPHAL, Jun 28 : An executive meeting of BJP Mahila Morcha, Manipur Pradesh was convened today at Lamphelpat with party National general secretary CT Ravi in attendance.
At the meeting, CT Ravi said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is at the helm of administration since 2014 considers himself only to be a prime servant while working for the development of the country.
Saying that Prime Minister also gives considerable importance on empowering women and had implemented many welfare schemes for the cause, CT Ravi maintained that more than 42 crore women of the country have opened their bank accounts under PM Jan Dhan Yojna to have affordable access to financial services in the first phase while many others have been given LPG connections.
There are several other schemes which aim to uplift the living standard of the women, he added.
CT Ravi was on a three day visit to the State to strengthen the BJP State unit so that the party could secure absolute majority in the 2024 Parliamentary election.
President of BJP Mahila Morcha, Manipur Pradesh Loteeka Leima said that the women unit of the party also played a key role in ensuring the landslide victory of BJP in the 2022 State Assembly elections.
She thanked all the members of BJP Mahila Morcha for their contributions to the elections.
Conveying gratitude to the Central leaders for nominating a tribal woman Draupadi Murmu as the candidate for BJP-led National Democratic Alliance for the 2022 Presidential election, she added that the party has shown its commitment to elevate women through this gesture again.
Loteeka Leima further stated that the president of BJP State unit is a woman and there are 11 women Cabinet Ministers at the Centre.
Naoriya Pakhanglakpa AC MLA Soraisam Kebi, BJP Mahila Morcha, Manipur Pradesh vice president T Meena  and BJP Manipur Pradesh general secretary P Premananda Meitei also attended the programme among others.