<https://newzhook.com/story/21825> Want our votes? Reflect our needs - Disability rights groups tell national level parties
The Communist Party of India (Marxist)'s move to dedicate a section of its election manifesto to the disabled community has thrown the spotlight on the two main contenders in the national - the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress Party. Neither the BJP nor the Congress have released their manifestos, but the CPI(M)'s move has led to more voices calling upon them to reflect the needs of India's disabled population. CHARTER OF DEMANDS The National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled(NPRD), a nationwide cross disability rights groups has written to BJP party president Amit Shah and the Congress party president Rahul Gandhi asking them to make certain commitments in their manifestos, including: Read More <https://newzhook.com/story/21825> Regards Ramya Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
