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SIKKIM: Womens Wing of SNPP meet

Posted by Barun Roy on December 27th, 2010

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THE HIMALAYAN BEACON [BEACON ONLINE]

The Mahila Shaka (Womens Wing) of Sikkim National People's Party (SNPP) held a meeting at the residence of the President on the 26th of Dec. 2010. The meeting was organized by Bhimshila Rai, convenor, and was attended by around 30 people including the party president. All organizational matters as set out in the agenda were discussed and some goals to further the activities of the womens wing were identified.

The meeting also discussed the issue of the Residential Certificates which are being issued to non-Sikkimese individuals and strongly objected to the fact that there is no consideration in it for the genuine Sikkimese women who has married a non-Sikkimese, or for non-Sikkimese who has married a Sikkimese. The meeting condemned the fact that the State Government has completely ignored this section of Sikkimese women and has been aggressive in awarding documents to complete outsiders only for political gains.

The meeting discussed the fact that a women married to a Sikkimese is being cruelly discriminated by the Income Tax Department as the COI awarded to this section of women do not contain Vol. No. and Serial number and thus are not exempt from paying tax. The meeting concluded that this is against the Human Rights of the women who are being segregated and humiliated in front of their family and their dear ones only for the sake of paying taxes, and condemned the ruling SDF for their visionless and blatantly anti-women policies which is creating cracks in the family system.

The meeting finally resolved the following:

Resolved that the party shall approach the Human Rights Commission regarding the humiliation suffered by women married to a Sikkimese for the purposes of tax collection. It was also decided that National Women’s Organizations be contacted on this matter as well.

Resolved that the party demand a stop to the process of issue of RC and other documents till the issue of genuine Sikkimese Daughters who have married non-Sikkimese is sorted out. It was further resolved to demand from the Government a white paper on the status of women of these categories before including total outsiders within the Sikkimese fold. [Through SNPP Press Release]