Domestic violence: Kerala ladies’s panel chief courts controversy as soon as once more for remarks on stay TV

By PTI
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Women’s Commission Chairperson, M C Josephine is within the eye of a storm as soon as once more over her alleged insensitive remarks to a complainant of domesticviolence, with calls for rising for her resignation.

Josephine, whereas attending a stay tv present hosted by a Malayalam information channel on Wednesday, requested a lady, who alleged that she was being harassed by her husband and mom in legislation, if she had filed a police grievance towards them.

When the lady replied within the unfavorable, Josephine might be seen reacting angrily, and requested her to “suffer” for not approaching the police.

The lady advised her that she was married since 2014 and had no kids and alleged she was always being assaulted by her husband and mother-in-law.

The video of the ladies panel chief’s behaviour on stay TV has gone viral on the social media, with calls for pouring in for her resignation, even from netizens with left leanings, on her ‘insensitive’ perspective.

Josephine, a central committee member of the ruling CPI (M), in a press assertion, later expressed remorse.

BJP state Chief Okay Surendran attacked Josephine for her remarks and needed the house division to register a case towards her.

“When a woman calledup to narrate her woes, Josephine had behaved in an insulting manner. How will women approach the commission with such a person at the helm?” Surendran requested.

Mahila Morcha chief, Bindu Krishna mentioned Josephine, heading a quasi judicial physique to make sure the security of ladies in misery, shouldn’t have behaved so.

This was not the primary time she has reacted like this, Krishna mentioned.

The morcha took out a march to the Secretariat this night, demanding her removing.

Josephine mentioned she had not behaved rudely to the lady.

“I could not hear her clearly and I told her to speak a little louder. She told me she had not filed a police complaint and I asked her like a mother why she had not filed so. I was angry that she had not filed any complaint against her husband and mother in law. However, later I felt that I should not have spoken to her like that,” she mentioned in an announcement.

“If that sister was hurt by my words I express regret,” she added.

Last yr, she had courted controversy by saying her get together CPI(M) was a courtroom and police station, whereas responding to queries on the left get together’s observe of conducting inner enquries in sexual abuse instances towards leaders.