Ranjana Kumari and Women Power Connect (WPC)

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WPC is a lobbying group formed by Ranjana Kumari. She modeled WPC after the American lobbying groups, after sanity and self interest prevailed and the 30% reservation for women in parliament bill stalled. Ranjana Kumari is the driver for the 30% reservation for women.

What do lobbyists do ? The sole purpose of the lobbyist’s activity is to create a climate of support for the proposed legislation leading to voter and legislative support for the bill. The most famous Lobbyist is Jack Abramoff. Lobbyists are reputed to attempt to bribe legislators to pass laws in favor of special interests. In the Indian context, you can imagine how dirty things can get.

WPC is funded by USAID. Here is the link to the page. USAID is talking about 33% reservation for India. Do they understand what this real game is about ? Above all, do you know that the US does not allow the contributions of cash by foreigners for election campaigns? So why are we allowing this in our land and in our filthy politics ?

There is no country in the world, which has 30% reservation for women. They don’t divide their citizens as men and women. My question is why is a 3rd world country like ours, who can’t even feed 500+ million of its population getting into experiments like this?

Here is the most important question: Why are they lobbying for a 30% reservation for women in legislative bodies?

Answer: To form a formidable power bloc that that every party in this country will have to kowtow to. This power bloc can act as king makers in an already fractured polity. They won’t have the responsibility of the party in power nor will they be in the losing situation of the opposition. By playing king makers and power brokers, they pretty much get anythign they want. If you think what I am saying is far fetched, all you need to look at is how we couldn’t get our former President reelected. The commies blocked his nomination as they are the king makers.

Here are links about WPC:

To get an idea about the provisions of the sexual harassment bill, you can read about it here. There are groups resisting its passage. I, for one, am all for it becoming the law, so that chaos ensues and millions get affected and the resulting backlash will cause sanity to be restored.

You can see Ranjana Kumari hobnobbing with celebs like Shabana Azmi in the newsletter that WPC put out and I uploaded.

I also wonder why Shabana Azmi is associating herself with Ranjana Kumari, especially as she is quoted as saying “I am a daughter, a wife, a mother, a woman, an actress, an Indian, and a Muslim. Each of those identities is important to me.”

Ms Azmi, the likes of Ranjana Kumari are trying to deprive your dad, your offspring and your hubby of their right to be treated equally by the law. I hope you understand this.

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2 Comments

  1. A Sharma said,

    May 19, 2008 at 8:15 am

    What nonsensical article. “Ms Azmi, the likes of Ranjana Kumari are trying to deprive your dad, your offspring and your hubby of their right to be treated equally by the law.” Really? My dad, my son and my husband are perfectly capable, secure men who understand that the point of a democracy is to give a voice to all sections of the population, and one way to give this voice is to have representatives from all sections of the populace, and so my dad and my husband support the women’s reservation bill as they have been pussy whipped by my mother and myself. My son will not be pussy whipped by his wife as I will make sure that I will find him an obedient wife. There can only be one feminist in the house!!.
    The issue of equality in a democratic set up gets reflected in the one-person-one-vote system. As far as issue of political parties fielding candidates in the elections is concerned, socio-politico-geographical considerations always have to be made.

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  2. maneeshkumwat said,

    September 25, 2009 at 12:04 pm

    Women Power Connect (WPC) is the great platform of Helpless ladies. I think this is a good organization to all women.

    My best wishes always with you.

    only one request – Please give me a chance to do anything to your organization.

    its my plesure.

    With regards,

    Maneesh kumawat. (Rajasthan)

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