Uma Bharti warns nation-wide agitation on women's reservation issue

Bharatiya Janshakti Party chief and former BJP leader Uma Bharti said that her party would launch a nation-wide agitation for women's reservation.        

Bharti was here on her way to Nashik where the former Madhya Pradesh chief minister would be meeting Malegaon blast-accused Pragna Thakur in a jail there.

Talking to PTI here she said Indian society was a male-dominated one and the women would have to fight for their rights.

Bharti said that 33% reservation for women was not enough. It has to be 50% as half of India's population are women.

She further said that there also should be a separate quota for the OBC (other backward class) women. Bharti said that though her party members have not contested elections but they will be doing it soon.

Referring to her fledgling party , she cited the example of the Jan Sangh and how it grew into a national level party.

Bharti, who had injured her foot, was travelling in a wheel-chair and had come to Valsad by train, from where she went by road to Nashik.