 Welcome to NewsClick. Today I'm marching along with thousands of other women who have congregated in the heart of Delhi to give a very strong message to the Modi government that women on the International Women's Day are actually promising to vote out the Modi government. The reason being that the failure of the Modi government's policies towards women and more importantly the very deeply ingrained idea of Romanical patriarchy that guides the policies and the actions of the government. The day primarily for two things. One, to remind ourselves that women have fought for their rights and of course have gained many a right, have got many a right and to resolve to continue the struggle for democracy, equality, women's rights and women's emancipation. Today's, though so many laws are there for women and children, the main problem is that it is not implemented properly. If the implementation is done properly, we can reduce this kind of violence against women. Now the children are not safe, women are not safe. We feel like some, we feel afraid to travel in Delhi being this capital and all around. In different states the level is different and there are women heads, women who should be celebrated every day, not only today. So that's my message and it has to start from the family, not from the society because the society is actually just deproted. So it has to, the change of mindset has to start from the family itself. Thank you. So there is on the international day of women and the celebration that marks the resistance, multiple women from different quarters of life be it domestic workers, sanitation workers, workers who are involved in sex work as well have come forward to celebrate this day of resistance together. They're also very clearly stating that there is a message being given out to the Modi government that they will vote them out eventually. King along with Rubina who is carrying her child on her back. These are the women who are living in shelter homes in Jamma Masjid in New Delhi in a very small cluster. These are women who have no employment and no place to go with pathetic conditions in the shelter homes as well. They don't have social security, they don't have any employment and they're trying to make do with the small contracts that they get to work in people's houses for a few days. So many women like her are marching today to demand their very rights to social security and dignified life. Today we're particularly here, I'm also here with the National Network of Sex Workers. Ayesha is going to speak with me on the stage. Whatever's are going to put our demand forward but how the sex and sexuality also needs to be really looked into. We totally understand that we are with everybody and we want everybody with us. It's not just and furthermore I'd like to add that our society also has a lot of stigma against single women and married women or divorced women and so when we talk about women they are multiple other identities who are facing a lot of other different types of stigmatization and that also need to be brought into four. That also need to be discussed. The silence needs to be broken and we all need to come together for their rights. Well on this women's day where we extend our greetings to women all over the world in India we remember the origins of women's day which was really based in the struggle of working-class women for a strong resistance to the kind of exploitation that they faced and I think today in 2019 when Indian women are facing such a huge conservative backlash because of the environment created by the BJP RSS's dominant ideology which sees women in a very stereotypical way and particularly working women they look down on working women because they feel that working women are not fulfilling their real role as mothers as sisters as subordinate to men and they are breaking tradition by going out to work and ruining the ideal Hindu family. So I think it is very essential that we assert the reality of women's autonomy of women's freedom of women's struggles of women's sacrifices which have brought so many women out of the darkness of the kind of Manuwadi societies that the BJP wants us to live in. So today we pledge resist these right-wing forces fight back the assault on our very being by the Hindutva forces and make sure on the coming elections that they voted out of power.