Sadau Asom Pragatishil Nari Santha (SAPNS) the Assam Unit of AIPWA observed International Women's Day by holding a women's rally at Guwahati. A procession of more than 1,200 women, most of them tea gardens workers, was brought out, which after covering the main route of Guwahati city ended in a mass meeting held at Dighali Pukhri Par. The meeting was addressed by Com. Kanaklata Dutta, Secretary of SAPNS, Com. Brij Pradhan, Secretary of Asom Sangrami Chah Sramik Sangh, Sonamoni Garh, Mira Tanti and Mamoni Ghatowar, all tea garden women activists, Rongdoi Terangpi of KNCA and Pankaj Das of CPI(ML).
While condemning the State Govt. for holding Budget session on 8 March, the meeting demanded that the Govt. must decalre 8 March as holiday. The meeting also addressed to the most burning issues of tea garden women workers including wages, maternity leave, 33% reservation, legislation for agrarian workers and life term imprisonment to the rapist.
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