Policy decision will be taken to ensure home-like security for women and children anywhere in the State, said Chief Minister Oommen Chandy.
He was inaugurating the seminar on ‘women politics: future potential’, organised by Mahila Congress on Saturday. A one-year action plan for the State Government will be announced on completion of the 100-day programme. Atrocities against women will be stopped at all cost.
Injustice against women and children and increasing addiction to liquor were against the culture of the land. The State Government alone cannot counter these social evils, it required the collective social conscience to do it, he said.
Political parties with no common ideologies were now coming together to weaken Congress. This might not work, as Congress has the faith of the public.
The ongoing agitation by the Left Democratic Front against the State Government has no justification, more so because the government has just come to power, Mr. Chandy said.
In his key note address, Union Minister of State for Food and Civil Supplies K.V. Thomas said that ours was the only State that implemented women empowerment effectively. The new Food Security policy has put woman at the centre of the beneficiary family.
State president of Mahila Congress Bindu Krishna presided. K. Babu, Minister for Excise; Tony Chammini, Mayor; Dominic Presentation, Anwar Sadath and Benny Behnan, MLAs; and P.P. Thankachan, UDF convenor, were present.
Published - August 20, 2011 12:21 pm IST
