Cricket stars join PM for new Varanasi stadium

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the women’s reservation bill will give a new energy, direction and impetus to women-led development in the country.

- NAMITA BAJPAI

The PM credited ‘women power’ for the passage of the Bill, renamed as ‘Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam.’

The PM was in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi on Saturday. He laid the foundation of an international cricket stadium in the presence of veteran cricketing stars and BCCI office bearers. He also inaugurated 16 Atal Residential Schools (ARS) for deprived and orphaned children.

While addressing a gathering of women during his 42nd visit to Kashi during the last nine years, the PM acknowledged the power of women’s leadership. “The Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, pending for three decades, has become a reality today. Political parties once opposed to it supported it in both Houses of Parliament,” Modi said.