Recently, external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj in her series of tweets talked about how previous congress governments had a minuscule representation of women in the top most decision-making body, or the Cabinet of the country.
What the minister tweeted was about this lack of representation of women under Nehru, Indira and Rajiv governments.
Nehru’s first cabinet had only one woman – Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur as a Cabinet Minister.
Muslim women were deliberately pushed towards marginality thanks to the Shah Bano case.
Addressing a gathering of students in Vadodara at the time of Gujarat assembly elections, Rahul Gandhi had asked whether any woman was ever seen in its ‘shakhas’ (a daily assembly of RSS), wearing shorts.
Then Mr Singh, another Senior Congress leader, had made a despicable sexist remark against his own party colleague Ms Meenakshi Natarajan.
