Women's Reservation Bill: Oppn Likely To Join KCR's Daughter Kavitha's Hunger Strike

The rally will include participation from a number of opposition parties and women's organisations from all across the country.

Several leaders of opposition parties will join Kavitha in her protest on Friday at Jantar Mantar in Delhi ( Image Source :ABP Desam )

 K. Kavitha, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader and daughter of Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao, is set to undertake a one-day hunger strike at Jantar Mantar in Delhi on March 10, demanding the BJP government to introduce and pass the Women's Reservation Bill in the current session of Parliament.

The rally will include participation from several opposition parties and women's organisations from all across the country.

According to an India Today report, several leaders of opposition parties will join Kavitha in her protest on Friday. Women's organisations and various political parties across 29 states were invited by the BRS to join the protest. The protest is expected to include participation from the Trinamool Congress, Uddhav Thackeray's Sena faction, Sharad Pawar's NCP, Akali Dal, JDU and RJD leaders, Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party, the CPM, and the CPI.

Meanwhile, on Wednesday, K. Kavitha wrote to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to say that she would appear before the ED on March 11 in the Delhi liquor scam. Kavitha wrote the letter in response to the ED's notice asking her to appear before the agency on March 9.

Kavitha had apparently requested a week to appear, but the ED rejected her request. Subsequently, she sent another letter.

According to an IANS report, a statement in this regard was issued from Kavitha's office late Wednesday night. "I, being a responsible Indian citizen and a woman of this nation, wish to exercise my rights provided under the law," she said.

"Further, I fail to understand why I have been summoned at such short notice. It seems that certain political motives have been masquerading as an investigation. I categorically say that I have nothing to do with the present investigation. As stated, being a social worker and having prior commitments, I had already planned my schedule for the upcoming week, and the abrupt rejection of my request seems to be motivated by reasons best known to you, which demonstrates that it is nothing but 'political victimisation," Kavitha said as quoted by IANS.