New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) Delhi BJP President Harsh Malhotra on Saturday said that the Presidents of 11 Organisational Districts have issued lists of party office-bearers for their respective districts, a party leader said.

The list of three districts – Outer Delhi, West Delhi and Najafgarh – shall be announced in due course in consultation with the present District Presidents.

Malhotra said that the Delhi unit has announced a list of office-bearers, giving 33 per cent representation to women, as per the national leadership’s commitment to women’s empowerment, and has also given ample opportunity to youth.

“We have strictly adhered to the appointment of scheduled caste office bearers too,” he said.

The new organisational set-up will further energise the party organisation in serving the people of Delhi, he said.

Earlier, while speaking at an event to mark the Emergency as “Samvidhan Hatya Diwas” on Friday, Malhotra said that the occasion reminds the young generation of the dark phase when democracy was suppressed in the country.

He said that during the Emergency, press freedom was curtailed, privileges were removed, and opposition workers and ordinary citizens faced hardships.

Malhotra said that the importance of remembering this day is not only to discuss the wrongs committed during the Emergency but also to educate the young generation, which did not witness that period, about the mindset behind those actions.

He said that the Emergency teaches that an independent judiciary, a free press, an active civil society, and aware citizens are the strongest pillars of democracy.

No matter how powerful a government is, the final decision in a democracy belongs to the people, Malhotra said.

The event was organised by the Delhi BJP at the NDMC Convention Centre under the chairmanship of Malhotra to remember the Emergency, imposed by the then Congress government in 1975, and felicitate 115 Loktantra Senanis (democracy warriors) who faced hardships while opposing the then government’s decision.

–IANS

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