Modi’s government claims it’s improved the lives of women. But here’s the reality

“On July 20, as the Narendra Modi government faced its first no-confidence motion in parliament, it began its defence by underlining its track record on women’s empowerment.
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Rakesh Sharma, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member of parliament from Jabalpur, argued that the Modi government’s Ujjwala Yojana and Swachh Bharat (Clean India) programmes had improved the lives of millions of Indian “mothers and sisters.”

Read article by Maria Thomas from Quartz India.