Womanist Party of India
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Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox political party Template:Sidebar with collapsible lists Womanist Party of India (also called Bharatiya Streevadi Paksh), is a political party in India. Its core issue is the emancipation of women. The WPI was founded in Mumbai on October 31, 2003. The WPI president is Varsha Kale,<ref name="firstparty">Template:Cite news</ref> and the General Secretary is Avisha Kulkarni.
The party decided to call itself 'womanist' as they consider the word 'feminist' to carry an upper-class connotation in India.
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- The New Amazons - The Telegraph
- The Womanist Party of India - The South Asian