Reply #9: Actually despite the unfortunate-sounding name...

[LeftishBrit]

she sounds like a good person:

According to Wikipedia:

'Smt. Sheila Dikshit has championed the cause of women at various fora and in various capacities. She has also been a leading figure in the movement for granting of equal rights to women. She represented India on the U.N. Commission on Status of Women for five years (1984 - 89). In Uttar Pradesh, she along with her 82 colleagues were jailed in August 1990 for 23 days by the state government when she led a movement against the atrocities being committed on women. Electrified by this, lakhs of citizens all over UP joined the movement and coured arrest. Earlier, in the early 1970s, she was chairperson of the Young Women's Association and was instrumental in the setting up two of most successful hostels for working women in Delhi.

She is also the Secretary of the Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust. The trust has come to play a leading role in promotion of international understanding. It presents the Indira Gandhi Award for Peace, Disarmament and Development and Organises conferences on issues of the global concern. Under his aegis an Environmental Center has been setup at the trust.

She has been especially intrested in the promotion of handicrafts and rural artisans all over the country. Promotion of the folk theatre has been one of her abiding commitments over the years . Between 1978 to 1984, in her capacity as the executive secretary of the Garment Exporter's Association, she played a leading role in taking garments exports to unprecedented levels.

She is strongly committed to Secularism and has from every platform fought against the rise of communal forces.'



Well, if she's committed to Secularism, she certainly couldn't be a Republican!