Today every newspaper is flooded with news about the much hated incident regarding eve-teasing that happened in Kolkata. Even as the woman (alleged to be
a victim of eve-teasing) had informed the police that she was under pressure
from the Trinamool Congress Party to withdraw the complaint regarding
lewd remarks being passed at her by certain troublemakers, Communist Party of India (Marxist) took
it as an opportunity to build a space for themselves in the hearts of the
native people by backlashing at the TMC for lack of security for women in the state.
What remains to be seen is that
neither the ruling party decides to take a stand on the issue nor the opposing
parties do anything to ensure arrest of the accused. They both got engaged in a
futile battle as to whose fault it was and what could have been done. But
neither of them decided to meet the victims of the issue, the people who had
got beaten up while trying to protect the woman, nor ensure proper inquiry into
the issue. The blighters belonging to Communist Party of India (Marxist) forget that situations were worse when they were in power.
India is a strange democracy. It
ensures right to secure lives but does not guarantee freedom of movement or
right to self-respect or protection from rotten elements who are bent upon to
destroy the basic rules, which guide our civilization.
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