The Congress on Monday attacked the Centre saying even the ‘Beti Bachao’ programme of the Modi Government is in tatters as women and girls are not safe in this administration.
From women being strip-searched in BJP chief Amit Shah’s rally to minors being assaulted and women widowed by police in the BJP-ruled States like Uttar Pradesh, the ruling party has exhibited all it prowess in bad terms in recent times, it said.
It also said that women leaders of Opposition parties are being hauled up publicly and they even face social media outrage from the saffron ideology-driven people. The party gave a campaign call of ‘Save Our Daughters from BJP’.
“May the country celebrate Mahalaya. On the eve of Navratra’s when Goddess Durga is about to enter our homes, the unabated incidents of Violence Against Women never end in the BJP ruled States. As the country is slowly opening up to India’s Me Too Movement; gruesome incidents that reveal the mindset and the policy failure of the BJP gets starkly exposed,” said Congress spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi.
“The BJP is suffering from melanophobia — the fear of colour black, these days. After black scarves, balloons and flags now even black undergarments are giving BJP the blues. In an outrageous incident during a Mahila Sammelan at Bhilai Charoda in Chhattisgarh that was being addressed by BJP President women were strip searched in the name of security. This shocking incident has once again exposed the ‘Mahila Virodhi’ mindset of the BJP. It is nothing but outraging the modesty of women folk who had come to listen to Amit Shah,” Chaturvedi said.
The party also talked about the horrifying incident of eve teasing and assault in a Supaul school in Bihar which too is a BJP ruled state. It also recalled the Unnao (UP) and Kathua (J&K) incidents besides the recent rape of a 14 month girl in Sabarkantha district of Gujarat.