News: Women leaders will get their due: Chiranjeevi

HYDERABAD: Praja Rajyam party president Chiranjeevi has assured leaders of the Mahila Rajyam, the women’s wing of the party, that they would be given priority in the Legislative Council and in the local body elections. As part of his meetings with the various wings of the party today, he met the Mahila Rajyam State Committee, about 200 members of which attended the meeting along with president Shobha Rani and executive president Vijaya Laxmi. In the meeting, Chiranjeevi thanked the women’s wing for campaigning tirelessly and ensuring that women voted in large numbers. At today’s meeting, the mahila committee members complained that party leaders and candidates had treated them with indifference. “They did not even bother to arrange drinking water, though we were sweating it out under the scorching sun,’’ they said, and also criticised the candidates for a lacklustre campaign. Further, they voiced unhappiness at the difficulties placed in their way in communicating with the party chief.