New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party will launch the Women Dialogue, the second phase of the Delhi Dialogue on 26 November second foundation day as Delhi Dialogue, an innovative initiative to engage with the residents of the national capital was launched with a successful Youth Dialogue at Jantar Mantar on November 15.
Youth Dialogue resulted in a five-point agenda of Degree, Income, WiFi, Sports and Drug-Free City. The Women Dialogue on Wednesday will see the culmination of multiple expert conferences and deliberations by the Women's Wing of the Aam Aadmi Party with common women of the city.
Bollywood actor and AAP leader Gul Panag, first woman DGP of the country Kandhan Chaudhary (on whose life popular TV serial Udaan was made) and former vice-president of Axis Bank Manisha Lath Gupta will be among the main speakers of the Women Dialogue.
Despite the solemn assurances enshrined in the Indian Constitution, women in Delhi continue to be treated as second-class citizens by every conceivable index. The truth is that the status of girls and women has deteriorated over the past six decades. A carefully crafted set of policies and affirmative action together with continuous efforts is required to change patriarchal mindsets and attitudes at all levels.
The AAP envisions a Delhi in which women will be acknowledged and treated as equal citizens in their own right; where they will not be governed by male-dominated values, which determine their societal and familial roles.
We have been engaging the experts and policy experts, businesses, government bureaucrats and other domain thought leaders on women, to talk about what the Aam Aadmi Party can do to make Delhi a safe, secure, happy and better place for our women to live in.
Over the past two weeks, the Delhi Dialogue team led by Ashish Khetan, Meera Sanyal and Adarsh Shastri have met with stakeholders on these issues ranging from bureaucrats, government employees and elected representatives, businesses, non-profits, journalists and other interesting persons with expertise.
They have looked at focus areas related to security, safety, sanitation, last mile connectivity, transportation, gender justice issues, entrepreneurship and jobs. Women Dialogue will attempt to look at every issue and policy from the lens of a woman.
Lalita Ramdas, a renowned activist and ex-Chairperson of Greenpeace International and Meera Sanyal, ex-CEO of Royal Bank of Scotland is leading the engagement with civil society. Atishi Marlena, a Rhodes Scholar from Oxford and one of the main coordinators of the Vision Swaraj and Manifesto teams, is leading the policy team on women's issues.
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