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Shivakumar heads to Delhi after No women in cabinet taunts
Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar was headed to Delhi on Sunday evening for meetings with Congress leadership, amid pressure over the absence of women in his cabinet. The CM has said a…
The Story in Brief
Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar was headed to Delhi on Sunday evening for meetings with Congress leadership, amid pressure over the absence of women in his cabinet. The CM has said a woman “will certainly” get a place in the ministry, which currently has 33 ministers including the CM, one berth short of the ceiling of 34.
The assurance follows a sharp exchange between Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Union minister Kiren Rijiju, who pointed out that Shivakumar's cabinet has no woman. Names doing the rounds for the berth include MLC Gayathri Shantegowda, former minister Laxmi Hebbalkar, KGF MLA Roopakala Shashidhar, Gulbarga North MLA Kaneez Fatima and MLC Arathi Krishna. The monsoon session begins August 13.
The Indian Opinion
The BJP's taunt is fair but incomplete. A cabinet without women is a real gap, but Rijiju's party has seven women among 71 union ministers, not exactly a shining benchmark. Congress's record is no better, and its promise of 33 percent reservation needs concrete action, not just Rahul Gandhi's rhetoric. Watch whether Shivakumar's Delhi meetings yield a woman minister in the next expansion, and whether she gets a substantive portfolio, not a ceremonial one. That will test the commitment.
Source: hindustantimes.com
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