Women empowerment tops her priority list

 

  Women empowerment tops her priority list  

 

The SAD candidate for the Bathinda Lok Sabha seat, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, today said her top priority was empowerment of women and drive against female foeticide. After filing her nomination papers, Harsimrat said she would strive for better education and health services for women in rural and urban areas of Punjab. Development of the Malwa belt was her electoral plank. She said she would also launch a crusade against drug abuse that was growing in the Malwa belt. She seeks to reach to the heart of the electorate on the strength of her profile as a non-political, highly religious and humanitarian background, backed by her parental legacy as scion of the Majithia clan.
Harsimrat, popularly called Beebaji, although has respect for all religions and strongly believes in the concept of one God but also feels that one must be true to the religion one is born in. She has been regular with her recitation of daily hymns from the Gurbani.
Born with a silver spoon, Harsimrat has always believed in pushing herself through tough grounding in life.
After a degree in textile designing from the South Delhi Polytechnic, this Lorreto Convent alumnus took up a low profile job as the junior most employee at Global Ventures, a merchandise concern in New Delhi in 1988 on a salary of Rs 1,250 per month, one tenth of which went to religious and humanitarian causes. But she made quick progress and, in less than two years, she was holding the second highest post in the company as Assistant Manager. She resigned to get married to Sukhbir Badal in 1991.
A strong believer in turning every event from a ritual to a meaningful milestone, she started a school for street children in Sultanpur area of Delhi. The school now has 55 students, all their needs fully taken care of by her efforts.
She says most of her business income goes to humanitarian causes like education of the girl child and marrying off girls from the needy families.
She is also a regular contributor to the old age home in Badal village run by CM Parkash Singh Badal. Her social and humanitarian zeal saw her spearheading a pioneering movement, known as Nanhi Chaan, on environment and girl child.