Priyanka Gandhi addressed Congress workers, supporters & well-wishers in Navelim.
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Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday took a gentle swipe at her own male party leaders in Goa, saying that with women being half of the population, women need to get 50% representation.
Addressing an election rally in South Goa's Majorda, she said she will have to come to Goa after finishing her work in UP and convince the Congress leadership in Goa to give women more representation.
"Come (back) and work hard on convincing these men here," Gandhi said, while referring to senior Congress leaders on the dais which included former Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, All India Congress Committee official in-charge of Goa Dinesh Gundu Rao, state Congress president Girish Chodankar, Leader of Opposition Digambar Kamat, among others.
She said that introduction of more women in electoral politics would bring down the tone of hatred in electioneering.
"The first and foremost (reason) is that as women and 50 per cent of the population, it is our right to have 50 per cent of the representation. It is not something anyone is doing us a favour. It is our right and we want to fight for our right. but more than that politics today has become filled with hatred, it has become filled with anger. You hear speeches... 90 per cent of the speech is negative," she said.
"I firmly believe that us women being the practical people that we are and having to handle so much, can actually bring that positivity and compassion in politics as well. It is my belief that all of us women should also be helped to stand up on our feet," she also said.
Earlier in the day, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra paid tribute to the Former PCC President and first woman Sarpanch of Betalbatim late Irene Barros, in Betalbati.
She also paid tribute to Veteran Singer Lata Mangeshkar during a Public Meeting in Nuvem.