Patna, Dec 11 (UNI) Bihar rural development minister Shrawan Kumar said that the entire women’s community has been humiliated and feeling hurt by the insulting remarks of RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav about them and would never forgive him.
Kumar told newspersons here on Wednesday that the remarks of Yadav were bad in taste and highly condemnable. He said that in view of the ensuing assembly elections, the opposition alliance was adopting tactics of pressure politics.
Condemning the remarks of Yadav, Building Construction Minister Jayanth Raj asked him to apologize for his comments.
JDU state spokesperson Parimal Kumar alleged that the RJD which had earned bad names for corruption, lawlessness, and jungle raj has now been branded as a party that humiliates and insults women.
The RJD rule was popular for crime against women, he alleged and claimed that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar emancipated the women folk from an era of crime and empowered them by providing them security and various other facilities in the socio-economic political and education sector.
Meanwhile, the women’s cell of JDU took out a protest march against the remarks of Yadav during the day. State President of the women’s cell, Bharti Mehta, leading the protest said that Yadav who himself is a father of 7 daughters has humiliated the women by commenting on the proposed Mahila Samvad Yatra of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. She asked Yadav to apologize publicly for his insulting remarks.
Yadav had downplayed the proposed ” Mahila Samvad Yatra ‘ of Kumar saying it was his “Aankh seko yatra” ( An act of getting pleased from staring at women ) and nothing else.
Yadav’s comments triggered his criticism in the political corridors. The Deputy Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Vijay Kumar Sinha had termed his remarks as an insult to women. Bihar Rural Works Minister and senior JD(U) leader Ashok Chaudhary had also asked Yadav to apologise publicly for his remark of sexual overture against women.
