{"id":14811,"date":"2013-01-19T22:01:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T22:01:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-15T11:01:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:01:46","slug":"india-s-sonia-gandhi-slams-shameful-attitudes-to-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=14811","title":{"rendered":"India’s Sonia Gandhi slams ‘shameful’ attitudes to women"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sonia Gandhi, president of India’s ruling Congress party, on Sunday condemned “shameful” social attitudes that led to crimes like the fatal gang-rape of a student in New Delhi.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We cannot tolerate shameful social mindsets that lead to unspeakable atrocities on women and children… every woman in the country has the fundamental right to feel safe and secure,” she said.<\/p>\n

Gandhi, seen as the country’s most powerful politician, said the 23-year-old woman, whose ordeal on a bus last month triggered nationwide protests, had tragically become a symbol for thousands of women who suffered a similar fate.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The barbaric gang-rape of a young woman in the capital has shaken the entire country. People are rightly demanding answers and actions,” Gandhi, 66, said at a meeting of her party in the northern city of Jaipur.<\/p>\n

“This brave young woman in many ways embodied the spirit of an aspirational India. We will ensure her death will not have been in vain.”<\/p>\n

Sexual crimes against women have been in the spotlight since the physiotherapy student was gang-raped and violated with a rusty iron rod on December 16 as she returned home from a cinema with her boyfriend.<\/p>\n

Gandhi said there was an urgent need to overhaul patriarchal mindsets and referred to some “shocking” recent statements by politicians that she said reflected a “completely unacceptable” attitude towards women.
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\nA female cabinet member in the state government of Madhya Pradesh said women who crossed “moral limits” deserved to be punished, while a lawmaker in the state of Rajasthan has suggested banning skirts in schools.<\/p>\n

The president’s son, a ruling party lawmaker, dismissed protesters demanding protection for women as “painted” women seeking to spark a “pink revolution”.<\/p>\n

We are lucky to have rights in the United States!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source AP<\/em>
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