Chandigarh, March 26 – The Haryana State Child Welfare Council has taken a unique initiative to take forward the vision of Haryana Chief Minister Sh. Nayab Singh Saini towards women empowerment. In this regard, the Council’s Vice President Smt. Suman Saini invited the wives of all the ministers and MLAs of the Haryana Government to the Chief Minister’s residence Sant Kabir Kutir and sought suggestions for women empowerment through the Kamal Sakhi Manch. The idea of Kamal Sakhi Manch was started on the suggestion of the country’s Prime Minister Sh. Narendra Modi and the National President of the BJP Sh. Jagat Prakash Nadda. The idea was that ministers, MLAs and MPs keep meeting during programs but their family members do not get the opportunity to come on one platform, so the Kamal Sakhi Manch was formed. The objective of this platform is to encourage the spirit of one party-one family so that family relationships can be strengthened.
It is noteworthy that earlier also, in the direction of women empowerment, Chief Minister Sh. Nayab Singh Saini organized a program in Jind on the occasion of the holy month of Sawan Hariyali Teej and presented Kauthli to the women. The tradition of giving Kauthli in Haryanavi culture has been going on for centuries. The girl’s family sends Kauthli to her in-laws on Teej. This strengthens the brother-sister relationship. It is a coincidence that the oath ceremony of the newly elected mayors, chairmen and councillors of municipal corporations, municipal councils and municipalities was held in Panchkula yesterday, in which the number of women was more than 50 percent. This reflects the vision of women empowerment of the Haryana Government to ensure 50 percent participation of women in Panchayati Raj institutions and urban local bodies.
Apart from this, the newly elected women public representatives also watched the proceedings of the ongoing budget session in the Haryana Assembly. This is probably the first occasion after the formation of Haryana that the wife of a Chief Minister has invited the wives of ministers and MLAs together to the Chief Minister’s residence. Even before this, Smt. Suman Saini has been celebrating Haryanvi festivals with women at the Chief Minister’s residence from time to time.
In today’s program, Haryana Assembly Speaker Sh. Harvinder Kalyan, Health Minister Arti Singh Rao, Women and Child Development Minister Smt. Shruti Choudhry, MLAs Krishna Gehlawat, Shakti Rani Sharma, Bimla Chaudhary and a large number of women associated with Kamal Sakhi Manch were present.
