UP women panel member quits, resigns from BJP too

Priyamvada Tomar, a BJP leader in UP who was a member of the UP State Women Commission, has quit the party on Wednesday alleging that BJP’s stand over the farmer agitation was insensitive. She also resigned from the UPSWC alleging that ‘rampant corruption’ was preventing her from helping women in the state get justice.

Tomar, a gynaecologist by profession from western UP which is one of the hotspots of the farmers stir, said several patients in the hospital in Shamli, where she practices, shared with her their plight and she was “forced by her conscience” to leave the party. In her letter to UP BJP president Swatantra Dev Singh, Tomar said she was “hurt” by the party's “extreme insensitivity” towards agitating farmers. She also said “corruption was at its peak” which was why she, despite being a UPSWC member, was unable to get justice for women.