Bihar Congress women’s wing chief resigns

Aweek after being drubbed in the assembly polls, the Congress in Bihar was in turmoil on Friday when its women’s wing president Sarwat Jahan Fatima stepped down in protest against the denial of a ticket and dissident leaders trashed show-cause notices.

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Fatima, the Bihar Mahila Congress president, said she was giving up her post in protest against the fact that only 8 per cent of the party's, candidates were women, and she was herself not considered for a ticket, unlike “all my predecessors”.

“Thave been in the post for 28 months, trying to galvanise women in support of the Congress with the promise that the party will work for their political empowerment. But when it came to tickets, only 8 per cent of the 61 candidates were women,” she said.

“There have been at least 12 or 13 persons, all belonging to different communities, who have been Bihar Mahila Congress presidents before me. All of them got party tickets in the elections. But I did not. Hence, Tam tendering my resignation from the post,” she added.