NCW member refused to meet Padil women – Prasanna Ravi

NCW member refused to meet Padil women – Prasanna Ravi

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, Aug 18, 2012 : Prasanna Ravi, convener of the Jagruthi Hindu Mahila Vedike, complained that Shamina Shafiq, member of the National Commission for Women (NCW), did not even shown the courtesy of meeting a group of women from Padil who were waiting for her when she visited the Circuit House on August 17, Friday. She accused the NCW member of leaving Mangalore without conducting a full inquiry into the home stay attack.


 

 

 

Speaking at a press meet held at Press Club on August 18, Saturday, Ms. Ravi said that Ms. Shafiq had refused to meet the local women of Padil. Later, she agreed to meet them for 5 minutes when she came to know that they had been waiting for her for nearly one-and-a-half hour.

Complaining that Ms. Shafiq did not even go through the memorandum they had submitted, but just kept it aside, she said that Ms. Shafiq did not even pay attention when they told her about the problems of Love Jihad, sex mafia, and drug mafia in Mangalore. Instead, she told them to discuss these issues with the state government, she said.

Further, Ms. Ravi said that Ms. Shafiq even refused to visit the young girl who was raped for two months in Mangalore on grounds that this was not the purpose of her visit to Mangalore. Although Ms. Shafiq visited Morning Mist Home Stay and inspected it for one hour, she refused to meet the group of Padil women, who were waiting to meet her and submit their memorandum.

Stating that the vedike condemns the behavior of the chairperson of the National Commission for Women, she said that a copy of the memorandum will be sent to the chairperson of the State Women’s Commission through the media. The NCW member has proven that she came to Mangalore as an agent of the central government, she alleged.

In response to a reporter’s query, Ms. Ravi said that she condemns the attack on women at the home stay, but maintains that the girls would have been exploited by the boys at the party if the HJV activists had not intervened. Stating that the vedike is “for the girls,” she said that there is a drug mafia in Mangalore, which is exploiting the city’s female population. Ms. Ravi also demanded to know why none of the girl victims are coming forward and speaking about the party.

When asked if she had any evidence to prove that the boys and girls were consuming drugs at the party, she replied in the negative. She also admitted that neither she nor her organization had visited the female victims of the home stay attack.

A few women from Padil were also present at the press conference.