Indore: National Women’s Party (NWP), the country’s all-women political party will be launched in the city on Thursday. Inspired by National Women’s Party of the United States, the party intends to fight for issues like reservation for women in Parliament and harassment of women at workplace.
Headed by Dr Swetha Shetty, a doctor and social activist, the party aims to get 50 percent reservation for women candidates in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The ideology behind the formation of this party is to remove gender disparity in politics and in patriarchal society.
The party also describes itself as party of mothers. It plans to create an environment that enables them to realise their full potential and help achieve the goals of empowerment. In addition, the party plans to launch a mobile app called Mahila Rakshak (Safety App), which will assist women in times of emergency.
The app will require its user to shake the phone or say ‘HELP’ multiple times, which in turn sends an SMS alert to three friends and relatives. The party also plans to open Youth Parliament (political schools for women) in every state to provide practical and academic training of Indian political process.
