UP Polls: RSS begins massive outreach program for Muslim women; unveils book Dastan-e-Yogi

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on Wednesday launched a massive outreach program to Muslim women in election-bound Uttar Presh.  As part of move, senior RSS leer Indresh Kumar presided over a day-long meeting of women wing of RSS-affiliated Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM) in Delhi.

During meeting, which deliberated on various issues pertaining to empowerment and welfare of Muslim women, Kumar also unveiled a book titled Dastan-e-Yogi - a biography of UP Chief Minister Yogi ityanath. book is an Urdu translation of ' Monk Who Became Chief Minister', authored by Shantanu Gupta and released originally in 2017.

RSS leer told reporters that women attendees thanked MRM, court, and Modi government for giving m "freedom from pain of instant triple talaq".

" meeting concluded with participants (Muslim women) raising a significant question that what have y got from parties that y loved and voted for in past 60 years, or than backwardness, poverty, hunger, insult, unemployment, pain of instant triple talaq and hatred against Hindus," he said.

Kumar, who is RSS national executive member and founder of MRM, said Muslim women will take message from meeting to community through social media and various meetings in an effort to show people "a correct picture" of RSS and BJP.

He also stated that move to raise legal marriage age from 18 to 21 has been welcomed by Muslim women. y believe that increasing minimum age of marriage will give m opportunity to complete ir higher education, at least up to level of gruation, or acquire some skills which will help m support ir family in future, said Kumar. 

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vra, who h announced in October that her party will give 40 per cent tickets to women in Uttar Presh assembly polls due early next year, recently accused rival parties of ignoring women, saying y started talking about m only after her party gave slogan of "Lki Hoon, L Sakti Hoon" (I am a girl and I can fight).

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