Political Life
Mrs Shastri has headed the Mahila Morcha wing of the Delhi BJP for three terms during which she organised a large number of activities for women upliftment. Nearly four to five thousand women participated in the programmes and became active members of the party.
She has served as the Vice President of the Delhi BJP as well as the incharge of the Shahdara District (East Delhi), actively participating in and organising a number of party programmes.
Her leadership skills were utilized successfully when she in her capacity as the convener organised the National Rally for Women’s Reservation on February 21, 2008 bringing as many as 40,000 women from all over Delhi to participate in it. Also,as a member of
1 The National Executive she has actively been participating in and contributing to the various conferences and meeting. She had also successfully organised a conference of Muslim women in 1998 which was addressed by the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at New Delhi and received wide coverage from the foreign media including ‘The New York Times’.
Realizing the potential of the youth of the country, she has actively promoted the youth wing of various organisations and in 1997 had also mobilized a huge gathering of the youth wing from the eastern part of the country which was addressed by the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Her humane face came to the fore when she tirelessly organised relief material and undertook collection work during the Tsunami and earthquakes in Gujarat, Kashmir and other parts of the country. After the Tsunami, she also visited and reviewed the rehabilitation of the affected people in Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
She has also campaigned for all-important national leaders of the BJP like Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Shri Lal Krishna Advani, Shri Murli Manohar Joshi, Shri Narendra Modi and others in their respective constituencies in Lok Sabha/Vidhan Sabha elections.
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