President Ram Nath Kovind will open the two-day National Women Legislators' Conference-2022, which is expected t♍o be attended by a host o🔴f women parliamentarians and legislators across the country, at the Legislative Assembly complex here on May 26.
Hosted by the state Assembly, the first-ever such event is organised as part of the nation-wide celebrations planned under Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav🃏' marking the 75🧸th anniversary of India's independence.
The President would a🎃rrive in the state capital in a special Air Force flight at 8.40 PM tonight๊ and would proceed to Raj Bhavan later, an official statement said here.
After the inaಞugural ceremony in the morning, he wꦉould leave for Pune by 5.20 PM in the evening, it added.
Meanwhile, Speaker M B Rajesh said it is for the first time that a national conference of women leg💯islators is organised on such a large scale.
According to Assembly sources, the two-day con🌄ference would discuss various topics of contemporary relevance centered on women's rights, gender equality, a🎉mple women's representation in decision making bodies and so on.
Gujara﷽t Assembly Speaker Nimaben Ac꧋harya, Lok Sabha MP Kanimozhi, former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar and former Rajya Sabha member Brinda Karat would be the speakers in the session "Constitution and Women's Rights".
MPs Supriya Sule and Jebi Methar and former MP Subhashini Ali would be the panelists in the session which discusses the "Role of Women in India's Freedom Struggle" while West Bengal minister Shashi Panja, MP Jaya Bachchan, Delhi Assembly deputy speaker Rakhi Birla and Kerala High Court justice Anu Sivaraman would be the 🎐speakers of the session "Women's Rights and Legal Gaps".
Uttarakhand Assembly Speaker Ritu Khandu𒁏ri, ཧTelangana MLC Kavitha Kalvakuntla and National federation of India Women general secretary Annie Raja would share their thoughts in the final day session "Under Representation of Women in Decision Making Bodies."
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, on May 27, would inaugurate the valedictory se🐈ssion in which state Devaswom and Parliamentary Affairs Minister K Radhakrishnan would deliver the keynote address.
