Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Fight for Women’ Reservation will Continue: Raja
By Brij Khandelwal
Agra: Over 100 communist party workers including 59 women were released from Agra's district jail, last Sunday afternoon, after they had been arrested for traveling without tickets at Billochpura railway station of Agra on 4th August, by a special squad headed by a railway magistrate who promptly sent all of them to jail.
All arrested were from Chatisgarh, on their way to New Delhi to offer Satyagrah at Jantar Mantar in support of women's reservation bill.
Their release followed high drama which at one stage threatened to sour relations between the communists and the Railway Minister Lalloo Yadav who using his special powers provided them passes to travel back home.
Earlier on Saturday CPI leader Jang Bahadur from New Delhi paid for tickets and penalty amounting to Rs.1,06,000/-. But since the court order for release of arrested reached the jailor late Saturday evening, their release was postponed to Sunday morning.
Annie Raja, General Secretary of national federation for women, a CPI front organization, said "we will continue to organize such demonstrations and dharnas with greater resolve as successive governments at the centre were found dragging their feet on this issue." She however said there was some softening on stand taken earlier by Lalloo Yadav and other pro-reservation parties like DMK.
Agra: Over 100 communist party workers including 59 women were released from Agra's district jail, last Sunday afternoon, after they had been arrested for traveling without tickets at Billochpura railway station of Agra on 4th August, by a special squad headed by a railway magistrate who promptly sent all of them to jail.
All arrested were from Chatisgarh, on their way to New Delhi to offer Satyagrah at Jantar Mantar in support of women's reservation bill.
Their release followed high drama which at one stage threatened to sour relations between the communists and the Railway Minister Lalloo Yadav who using his special powers provided them passes to travel back home.
Earlier on Saturday CPI leader Jang Bahadur from New Delhi paid for tickets and penalty amounting to Rs.1,06,000/-. But since the court order for release of arrested reached the jailor late Saturday evening, their release was postponed to Sunday morning.
Annie Raja, General Secretary of national federation for women, a CPI front organization, said "we will continue to organize such demonstrations and dharnas with greater resolve as successive governments at the centre were found dragging their feet on this issue." She however said there was some softening on stand taken earlier by Lalloo Yadav and other pro-reservation parties like DMK.
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