Kerala Women’s Commission chief quits after backlash over feedback on home violence sufferer

Kerala Women’s Commission Chairperson MC Josephine resigned after intense public backlash over her insensitive feedback to a home violence sufferer throughout a reside tv information present.
Josephine, who has headed the ladies’s panel since 2017, was requested to clarify her feedback in a gathering of the CPM state secretariat on the AKG Bhawan in Thiruvananthapuram Friday.
But regardless of her clarification, many members of the secretariat are learnt to have censured her for making such feedback whereas assuming a constitutional put up. It’s on the celebration’s insistence that Josephine submitted her resignation
Josephine, a member of the CPM central committee, made disparaging feedback when a lady from Ernakulam district of Kerala referred to as in throughout a reside present on Manorama information to complain of torture by the hands of her husband and mother-in-law. When Josephine requested her why she didn’t method the police with a criticism, the girl admitted that she didn’t inform anybody. To which, Josephine snapped again, saying, “Enna pinne anubhavicho! (Oh, then you suffer!)”
She suggested the complainant to method the household courtroom in order that her household could be compensated. “Did you understand what I said? If you don’t want to live with your husband, you should get a good lawyer and approach the family court to get the dowry back and compensation,” she stated.

Her comment led to Opposition events calling for her sacking because the chief of the ladies’s panel.
Vadakara MLA and RMP chief KK Rema, in a Facebook put up, stated, “She has spoken from the outset in a voice that smacks of arrogance and insensitivity, and provides no relief or support for victims. Such remarks underline that she doesn’t understand the sanctity of the post she’s occupying.”
Youth Congress state president Shafi Parambil stated “she should be appointed as the chief of the anti-women’s commission”.