New Delhi: Ghar par ladka hai par lad nahin sakta (There is a boy at home who can’t fight)”, Union Minister Smriti Irani said on Thursday, making a dig at Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s slogan “Ladki hoon, lad sakti hoon (I’m a girl and can fight)” for her party.
Priyanka Gandhi had said this during her announcement last month that the Congress will field woman candidates on 40 per cent of the UP assembly seats.
The Union Minister for Women and Child Development said, “This means she is saying she does not want to give 60 per cent tickets to women. I am not saying in politics and democracy, people should not try. Winning and losing is part of politics. I also lost in 2014 but the question is how much belief do the people have in your efforts,” she said.
As for Rahul Gandhi, she asked, “Do people have that sentiment towards that person?”
She said women leaders should not be expected to take care of only women members of society. “When we talk about women leaders why do we say women leaders must work only for women, why don’t we say that for men too? When we give constitutional responsibility to someone, one’s responsibility is also that one works as much for men, children and elders as one does it for women,” she said.
