After unveiling it’s manifesto a few days ago, the All Indian Mahila Empowerment Party (AIMEP) today unveiled the second list of its candidates to contest for the Karnataka Assembly during an event at The Lalit Ashok Hotel today. The party had earlier announced the spokespeople for the upcoming elections scheduled to be held on May 12.
While announcing the candidates, Dr Nowhera Shaik, President, All India Mahila Empowerment Party, said, “We have chosen our candidates after a lot of careful deliberations and background checks. We all believe in our platform of social justice and justice for all. We are all working towards the cause of India, where our candidates, too, are concerned with the welfare of women who are at the wrong end of the spectrum. Those who have not received seats at the MLA level, will be given seats at the municipal and corporation levels.”
The MEP is the first political party in the country focussing on women and their issues, as it believes that improving the conditions of women will ensure that the society as a whole will be improve.
The AIMEP has expressed its intention to contest all the 224 seats in Karnataka Assembly polls. The party has also said that it aims to make a pro-women government and it’s list of candidates itself is an indication of its intentions.
About AIMEP
It is the concern towards the issues of women that led into forming the All India Mahila Empowerment Party. The indispensability of politics in addressing social concerns is what prompted into forming of the party , MEP devoted to the course of gender justice and empowerment of women. Realized how the male oriented social set up is limiting the development of faculties of women making them unaware and unable of self-recognition and independent existence.
The All India Mahila Empowerment Party is a result of realizations in the past of engagement in issues concerning women. Ultimate change can be made possible only through organizing as a movement making things clear and be demanding from the authorities to ensure women rights and gender justice. Working under the banner JUSTICE FOR HUMANITY, this party leaves no little room for doubts and questions. A sound society which recognizes equality of all its members can only build a healthy and strong nation. Empowering women is a means towards the empowerment of the larger society and the nation.
About Dr Nowhera Shaik
Dr Shaik has been running her own business for over 20 years and has been educating girls as a means to empower them. She is the President of a reputed Muslim women’s organisation, At-Tawheed International Dawah Centre for Women, which supports thousands of poor women through her charitable activities like sponsoring education, arranging marriages, health camps, etc. The organisation today has chapters across cities in India and the Middle East.
The All India Mahila Empowerment Party is a result of Nowhera Shaik’s commitment towards to society and the country . Ultimate change can be made possible only through organising movement, making things clear and be demanding from the authorities to ensure women rights and gender justice.
