prasad1
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I am not a Maneka Gandhi fan, but this is the best solution for the UP situation. Will she respond in the same fashion if this was Gujarat, or Rajasthan, that needs to be seen. But I applaud her efforts.
Calling the gang rape and murder of two girls in Badaun a "terrible" case and Uttar Pradesh government "insensitive", women and child development (WCD) minister Maneka Gandhi on Monday said the Centre would set up rape crisis centres in all districts of the state by year-end.
"Insensitive, they are. I say this government should go. But even if a new government comes, till the time we don't provide ample protection to women, what will it do?" Gandhi said when asked if she thought that recurrence of crimes against women in UP reflected insensitivity on the part of the state government.
She said the incident in Badaun is a "terrible, terrible case" which is symptomatic of what is happening all over the country.
Gandhi said such incidents occurred because very few support services were available to women victims and added that her ministry had taken such crimes "very seriously".
"Even if there had been no Badaun, this was on my priority to establish functioning rape crisis centres. These centres would be serviced by policemen, lawyers, doctors.... There would be ambulance and they will go hand in hand with a national helpline," she said.
Calling the gang rape and murder of two girls in Badaun a "terrible" case and Uttar Pradesh government "insensitive", women and child development (WCD) minister Maneka Gandhi on Monday said the Centre would set up rape crisis centres in all districts of the state by year-end.
"Insensitive, they are. I say this government should go. But even if a new government comes, till the time we don't provide ample protection to women, what will it do?" Gandhi said when asked if she thought that recurrence of crimes against women in UP reflected insensitivity on the part of the state government.
She said the incident in Badaun is a "terrible, terrible case" which is symptomatic of what is happening all over the country.
Gandhi said such incidents occurred because very few support services were available to women victims and added that her ministry had taken such crimes "very seriously".
"Even if there had been no Badaun, this was on my priority to establish functioning rape crisis centres. These centres would be serviced by policemen, lawyers, doctors.... There would be ambulance and they will go hand in hand with a national helpline," she said.
