देश जाग उठा
Asaram
(Hindustan Times)
On making girls in the tropical southern citywear overcoats so men won’t be driven mad with lust: "The meeting resolved to introduce overcoats for girl students, operate special buses for them and ban mobile phones in schools. Our government is committed to ensuring safety of women, particularly girl students."
Puducherry Education Minister T Thiagarajan
(Hindustan Times)
Rajasthan BJP lawmaker Banwari Lal Singhal, a MLA in Rajasthan has demanded a banon skirts as uniform in schools to keep girls away from "men's lustful gazes". Alwar (Urban) legislator Banwari Lal Singhal has written a letter to the state chief secretary C K Mathew, demanding that skirts should be replaced by trousers or salwar-kameez. "The intention of this demand is to keep girl students away from men's lustful gazes and for their comfort in hot and cold weather conditions,"
(Outlook)
"If you keep petrol and fire together then it will burn. There should be a law to ensure that there should be no ‘nangapan' (nudity). Those who wear less clothes should also be banned." Also, paraphrased: fashion and nudity are responsible for the current situation in India. And in rural India, "girls don't go searching out for boyfriend(s)." It goes on: "I support death penalty for the Delhi rapists but there should also be a law that women should not wear less clothes and roam around with boys who are not their relatives. What is the need for roaming at night with men who are not relatives? This should be stopped." To be fair, here is the response from his son Farhan: "We are a cosmopolitan family, I have five sisters, they are educated, they drive and roam around in cars, we have always respected girls as equals and is that how it should be."
Abu Asim Azmi, state president of the Maharashtra Samajwadi Party (India Today)
"Those who claim to be students - I can see many beautiful women among them - highly dented-painted - they're giving interviews on TV, they've brought their children to show them the scenes. I have grave doubts whether they're students, because women of that age are generally not students."
(Note: by dented-painted, we generally understand this to mean that they're either
- a) a bit older and therefore need to be made up to look attractive,
- b) they're like a car after a repair job, or
- c) they're generally made up, and somehow not serious about their protests against the climate of assault and lack of prosecution in India.
(Financial Express)
"Only when Sitaji crossed the Lakshman rekha, she was kidnapped by Ravan. If Sitaji (woman) crosses the Lakshman rekha, then "Sitaharan" (crime against them) is bound to take place as Ravans are out there." Here's the background on that, along with one hell of a deconstruction of the plight of women "alone in the forest," by Nilanjana Roy. Vijayvargiya withdrew his remark under pressure, by the way.
Madhya Pradesh BJP leader Vijayvargiya
(Deccan Chronicle)
Chhattisgarh Home Minister Nanki Ram Kanwar
Mohan Bhagwat (chief of right-wing organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh)
Jitendar Chattar (leader of a Khap Panchayat)
Dr. Anita Shukla, scientist at the Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya
Jamaat-E-Islami Hind (Islamist organisation).
Statement released by Secretary General Nusrat Ali
(Times of India)
"Why do housewives and school going girls need mobiles? It encourages them to make futile small talk and get connected with people outside their homes."
MP Rajpal Saini
Naresh Agarwal
Samajwadi Party leader and Rajya Sabha MP
SonyLiv:
Part 1: 07-Nov-2015---Crime-Patrol---A-Nation-Awakens-1
Part 2: 08-Nov-2015---Crime-Patrol---A-Nation-Awakens--2
Other Links:
Here is the inside story of the case:
- Chronology of 16 Dec Delhi Case
- 16th Dec Delhi: Victim dies after 13 days long fight for life (To be telecasted on 11th, 12th Jan 2013)
- Crime Patrol Dastak to Portrait 16 Dec 2012 Delhi Case (Hindi)