----- Original Message ----- From: National Platform For The Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) To: undisclosed-recipients: Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 2:27 AM Subject: Fwd: URGENT: DRAFT PRESS RELEASE
Disabled Rights Group (DRG) & National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) January 9, 2014 PRESS STATEMENT Disabled Activists meet Sonia Gandhi A nine-member delegation of the Disabled Rights Group (DRG) and the National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) met Congress President, Sonia Gandhi today in its continuing effort to seek the support of major political parties to ensure the introduction and passage of the Disability Rights Bill when Parliament is re-convened early next month. The DRG - NPRD delegation tried to impress upon Mrs. Gandhi that though the process of drafting the new law started over four years back and has gone through various stages, the Bill is yet to be introduced in the Parliament. The Congress President assured the delegation of her party’s full support in ensuring the passage of the Bill. She also assured the delegation that she would personally take up the matter with the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Kamal Nath on prioritizing the Bill for enactment in the agenda when Parliament is reconvened next month. The DRG & the NPRD thank Mrs. Gandhi for the assurance of support given by her. In this entire process of meeting the political leadership of the country, the DRG and the NPRD have already met Vice President Hamid Ansari, CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat and BJP leader in the Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley. All these leaders have assured their best support for the speedy enactment of the disability rights legislation. The members of the delegation which called upon Sonia Gandhi were: Javed Abidi (Convener, DRG), Muralidharan (Secretary, NPRD), Merry Barua (Action for Autism), Syamala Gidugu (AADI), Neelam Jolly (VISHWAS), Radhika Alkazi (Aarth-Aastha), George Abraham (Score) and Zorin Singha & A. S Narayanan (National Association for the Deaf). Javed Abidi . Muralidharan Convener, DRG. Secretary, NPRD Contact details for Javed Abidi: Email: abid...@gmail.com Mobile: 9811038018 Contact details for Muralidharan: Mobile 9868768543 Email: nprd...@gmail.com Time to meet up again! Register for AccessIndia Convention 2014: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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..
