Women can protect themselves if they have rights: Rahul Gandhi

Strongly batting for empowerment of women, Gandhi said India cannot become a superpower without the empowerment of the country's 50 per cent population.

"Empowering women is a big battle that we have to fight and win," he said and expressed confidence that not only the Bill that seeks to provide 33 per cent quota to women in legislatures bodies will be passed but in next five to ten years, nearly half of Congress ministers will be women.

"I want to tell you my perspective. In my house, there was papa (Rajiv Gandhi), there was uncle (Sanjay Gandhi) but the boss of the house was my dadi. There was no doubt about that that. Grandma was the boss," he said with a chuckle.