Cong slams Irani for ‘silence’ on women’s issues, asks her to put forward 10-year ‘report card’

The Congress on Thursday accused Union Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani of maintaining a silence on key issues related to women and said she should put forward her ministry’s 10-year report card before people.

Mahila Congress president Alka Lamba said AICC general secretary Jairam Ramesh had recently posed several questions to Irani, but the minister did not give detailed answers to any of those.

“We had expected that the country’s women and child development minister, Smriti Irani, would hold a press conference and present the report card of her department. She kept avoiding this, but now we are determined to hold her accountable,” Lamba told a press conference at the Congress headquarters here.