Persevering with his assault on the BJP-led Centre and Dwelling Minister Amit Shah for failing to make sure ladies’s security and regulation and order within the Capital, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal accused the get together of prioritising political good points over governance. Parallely, he showcased the AAP’s initiatives for girls just like the ‘Mukhyamantri Mahila Samman Yojana’.
The previous Delhi CM was talking at a Mahila Adalat, oragnised to mark the twelfth anniversary of the December 2012, gangrape case, at Thyagraj Stadium Monday. The occasion noticed the presence of Samajwadi Occasion Chief Akhilesh Yadav, who introduced his get together’s full help for the AAP within the upcoming Delhi Meeting polls which the Congress, its INDIA bloc ally, can also be contesting.
The venue, designed to resemble a courtroom, featured testimonies from ladies who recounted experiences of violence, harassment, and police apathy.
A youngster mentioned, “Some boys adopted me from the market, and one immediately grabbed me. I screamed for assist, however nobody intervened…” One other lady described an assault on her and her daughter. “They beat us in broad daylight… and sexually assaulted my daughter. Police refused to file an FIR,” she alleged.
Addressing a crowd of predominantly feminine supporters, Kejriwal mirrored on the gangrape case: “This present day, 12 years in the past, our youthful sister was brutally gangraped. It felt like a transformative second for the nation. However right here we’re, 12 years later, and crimes towards ladies have solely elevated exponentially.”
He then highlighted his authorities’s achievements: “We’ve put in over 3 lakh cameras. We’ve deployed marshals on buses and put in over 4 lakh streetlights. However regulation and order is below the BJP-led Centre and it’s failed miserably… Girls’s security is solely not on their agenda.”
The Adalat additionally featured a video interspersed with newspaper reviews, CCTV footage of crimes, and testimonies of girls to underscore the alleged failures of the Dwelling Ministry. “If Amit Shah can’t handle Delhi’s regulation and order, he ought to admit it. The ladies of Delhi are sturdy sufficient to deal with it themselves,” Kejriwal mentioned.
He additionally lauded the Mahila Samman Yojana, which guarantees monetary support of Rs 1,000 for girls and Rs 2,100 if the AAP returns to energy. “… Monetary help will empower ladies to contribute to society,” he mentioned.
Yadav additionally hit out on the Dwelling Ministry. “If Delhi shouldn’t be secure, how can we anticipate some other metropolis to be secure?”
Thanking Kejriwal, he added, “l guarantee you of yet another factor — that the Samajwadi Occasion is standing with you with full duty… the quantity of labor that your authorities has carried out in Delhi, we really feel you need to get an opportunity to work as soon as once more.”
CM Atishi, who was additionally on the occasion, mentioned, “The time has come to lift our voices and present the BJP that the daughters of this nation are like Rani Lakshmi Bai. Simply as she stood towards the British, the ladies of Delhi will stand towards the BJP and make their voices heard.”
In the meantime, BJP MPs Bansuri Swaraj and Kamaljeet Sehrawat, together with officers of their Mahila Morcha, held a protest exterior Kejriwal’s residence over the inclusion of his aide Bibhav Kumar within the occasion. “If Kejriwal really needs to honour ladies in Delhi, he ought to first expel these with misogynistic mindsets from his personal get together,” the Delhi BJP mentioned.
Kumar has been accused of allegedly assaulting AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal.
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