Sonia Gandhi launches signature campaign

New Delhi May 21: Congress President Sonia Gandhi has launched a signature campaign for 33 percent of seats in Assembly and Parliamentary elections for women here on Sunday.

She launched the campaign On the death anniversary of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's.

Vice President of Congress Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi's daughter Priyanka Gandhi and son-in-law Robert Vadra also endorsed it by signing the campaign.The Mahila Congress has launched a nationwide aggressive campaign to build pressure on the govt to get the Women Reservation Bill be tabled and Passed in Parliament.

This campaign will last until August 20, late Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary.It was during former Prime Minister Deve Gowda's tenure that Women's Reservation Bill was introduced in 1996.