Centre, Maharashtra govt. insensitive towards women: Supriya Sule
The Hindu
“I will appeal to the Centre to expedite justice in the case,” she said.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) working president and Baramati MP Supriya Sule on Friday criticised the Centre and the Shinde-Fadnavis Maharashtra government for their insensitivity towards women, while referring to the Delhi police’s crackdown on a protest by women wrestlers and the increasing crimes against women in Maharashtra.
Ms. Sule, who recently assumed her new party post, said that the way the Delhi police handled the protest by women wrestlers and rising incidence of crime against women in Maharashtra were proof of the ‘insensitivity’.
During her maiden visit to office after becoming the party’s national president, she met with the family members of an 18-year-old student who was raped and murdered in a government hostel in Mumbai, and blamed the State Home Department, which is handled by Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, for failing to ensure the safety and security of women.
“I will appeal to the Centre to expedite justice in the case,” she said.
When asked about speculation regarding her cousin and NCP leader Ajit Pawar’s dissatisfaction with her elevation in the party, the Baramati MP dismissed it and referred to him as the ‘Amitabh Bachchan of Maharashtra politics’.
Further highlighting the need for democracy and decentralisation of power, she said “but the prevailing political situation reflected something different. One Minister holds 10 to 15 portfolios and local bodies and civic bodies have been functioning without elections being held”, expressing her confusion on who is actually running the affairs of the State.
She also mentioned that the NCP had begun its preparations for the upcoming Lok Sabha election, and the Maha Vikas Aghadi would meet soon.
“We are judges and therefore, cannot act like Mughals of a bygone era ... the writ courts in the guise of doing justice cannot transcend the barriers of law,” the High Court of Karnataka observed while setting aside an order of a single judge, who in 2016 had extended the lease of a public premises allotted to a physically challenged person to 20 years contrary to 12-year period stipulated in the law.
The High Court of Karnataka on Monday declined to interfere, at present, in the investigation against a Bharatiya Janata Party worker, who is among the accused persons facing charges of circulating obscene clips, related to “morphed” images and videos clips related to Prajwal Revanna, former Hassan MP, in public domain through pen drives and other modes.