She has been extensively interacting with Mahila Morcha members and women cadres so far during the tour basically egging them to take a plunge in electoral politics so that more women become part of decision making bodies.
A party source informed that starting with Imphal in Manipur, Irani will visit Assam, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh and will arrive at Shillong on Thursday. From Meghalaya she would proceed to Mizoram and Tripura before leaving for New Delhi from Agartala on September 10.
The charismatic BJP leader during all her interactions with women of the region so far has tried to drive home that women of the region who have excelled in various fields would be able to lead from the front
if they decided to take a plunge in electoral politics.
She said the country which is reeling under rampant corruption, needed more and more women in active politics to root out corruption and prevent rising trend of various crime against women including trafficking. She said the BJP had taken a serious note of rising incidents of women trafficking in the country and would set up district level women empowerment centres to prevent the same. According to her women empowerment held the key to safeguarding the women against any sort of abuse and exploitation.
Meanwhile, firebrand BJP leader Varun Gandhi is slated to arrive in Guwahati on Tuesday for a two-day tour of the Assam. It will be his first visit to the state after he was put in charge of Assam unit of the party before the assembly election due in 2011. Besides interacting with the party leaders, Varun is also addressing party workers on Wednesday.
