A view of the Maharashtra Assembly constructing in Mumbai. FIle Photo.
| Photo Credit: Vivek Bendre
On the event of International Women’s Day on Wednesday, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly speaker Rahul Narvekar listed the calling consideration motions moved by ladies legislators.
The listed subjects included farmers’ misery, the non-construction of a flyover in Mumbai, and the enlargement of limits of a municipal company, amongst others.
Currently, senior BJP chief and State Minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha heads the Women and Child Welfare Department portfolio. Women leaders from the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi expressed disappointment over the absence of ladies Ministers in the Maharashtra Cabinet and demanded the Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis authorities induct no less than one lady Minister in their Cabinet.
