To The Chairperson,
National Commission for Women,
New Delhi.
Cc - To The Minister,
Ministry of Women and Child Development,
New Delhi.
Dear Mamtaji,
This mail is in reference to your justification given to the media, and through them, to the rape victim, her family and the country that you could not meet the victim in the hospital on the 19th of April, 2013 as it was a 'holiday'.
I wish a statutory body set up for protecting the rights of women in the country had chairpersons who were, to the least, concern about women.
I may take this opportunity to remind you that in your message, upon taking charge as the chairperson of the National Commission for Women on the 2nd of August, 2011, you had mentioned that the 'focus should not only be on women empowerment but also on growth and development'. In fact you went a step further. You added that you believed 'that empowerment will also bring down atrocities against women as they will have the strength and knowledge to stand up for their rights'. You even mentioned the need for 'attitudinal changes' to bring down crime against women.
I wish you had not forgotten all these statements you had made and had worked towards achieving these. I wonder how your conscience permits you to say such preposterous things!
You have set the nation thinking as to how the women of this country can be empowered by the State when people like you chair the very Commission whose mandate is to, inter alia, review the constitutional and legal safeguards of women, facilitate redressal of grievances and advice the government on all policy matters affecting women.
I am deeply distressed by the fact that people like you have made a mockery of such Commissions. By doing so you are not just disrespecting the Constitution of India and the Parliament, but also to the people of the nation.
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Following is the link of NCW Chief's address to CNN IBN
