Telangana Congress president A. Revanth Reddy said as soon as the Congress government came to power four women ministers would be inducted in the Cabinet giving them the respect they deserved.
He was speaking at the Women’s Day celebrations held at Gandhi Bhavan under the aegis of the women’s wing of the party. He recalled how six women ministers worked in the previous Congress government and that too handling important portfolios like Home. That was the importance given to women in the party. In the combined Andhra Pradesh it was only Congress that provided interest-free loans to encourage them to create employment opportunities not only for them but also others.
Mr. Reddy also said Telangana formation would not have been possible without women and said it were Sonia Gandhi, Sushma Swaraj and Meira Kumar who played the crucial role in passing the bill in Parliament.
